Assessment of errors in the determination of mark-houwink-sakurada and stockmayer-fixman constants using size-exclusion chromatography with on-line viscometric detection: Analyses of poly(p-substituted styrenes) in tetrahydrofuran

Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 2557-2570

  Coote, Michelle L ^a   Davis, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mark houwink sakurada constants; Molecular weight analysis; On line differential viscometry; Para substituted styrene polymers; Size exclusion chromatography; Statistical model fitting; Stockmayer fixman constants

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL METHODS; SUBSTITUTION REACTIONS; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

MARK-HOUWINK-SAKURADA CONSTANTS; ONLINE DIFFERENTIAL VISCOMETRY; PARA-SUBSTITUTED STYRENE POLYMERS; STATISTICAL MODEL FITTINGS; STOCKMAYER-FIXMAN CONSTANTS;

POLYSTYRENES;

EID: 0032654554     PISSN: 08876266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0488(19990915)37:18<2557::AID-POLB2>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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