Nonisothermal, uncontrolled homo- and copolymerization of ethylene using selected zirconocenes

Journal of Applied Polymer Science

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 137-147

  Atiqullah, Muhammad ^a   Hammawa, Hassan ^a   Akhtar, Muhammad N ^a   Khan, Javaid H ^a   Hamid, Halim ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Chain branching; Comonomer and molecular weight distributions; CRYSTAF; DSC; Nonisothermal olefin polymerization; Zirconocene catalyst

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; CATALYSTS; COMPOSITION; COPOLYMERS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; MONOMERS; POLYMERIZATION; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

CHAIN BRANCHING; COMONOMER; CRYSTALLINITY; KINETIC STABILITY; NONISOTHERMAL OLEFIN POLYMERIZATION; REACTION EXOTHERM; THERMAL PERTURBATION; ZIRCONOCENE;

POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 0032480513     PISSN: 00218995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4628(19981003)70:1<137::AID-APP14>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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