Elucidation of the chain conformation in a glassy polyester, PET, by two-dimensional NMR

Science

Volumn 280, Issue 5364, 1998, Pages 714-717

  Schmidt Rohr, K ^a   Hu, W ^a   Zumbulyadis, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032076265     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5364.714     Document Type: Article

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44. Generous financial support for K.S.-R. by a Beckman Young Investigator Award is gratefully acknowledged. Partial support was also provided by the NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and by NSF grant DMR-9703916. K.S.-R. thanks M. Hong for stimulating discussions on data quantification.