Characteristics of long chain branching in ethene polymerization with single site catalysts

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 6687-6696

  Malmberg, Anneli ^a,b   Liimatta, Jonas ^a,c   Lehtinen, Arja ^b   Löfgren, Barbro ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b BOREALIS POLYMERS OY   (Finland)

^c Fortum Oil and Gas Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYST ACTIVITY; COPOLYMERS; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; MASS TRANSFER; MONOMERS; ORGANOMETALLICS; PARTIAL PRESSURE; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

ETHENE;

MACROMOLECULES;

EID: 0032595898     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9907136     Document Type: Article

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