Employing MALDI-MS on poly(alkylthiophenes): Analysis of molecular weights, molecular weight distributions, end-group structures, and end-group modifications

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 5777-5785

  Liu, Jinsong ^a   Loewe, Robert S ^a   McCullough, Richard D ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DISPERSIONS; FRACTIONATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME-OF-FLIGHT SPECTRA; POLYALKYLTHIOPHENES;

MACROMOLECULES;

EID: 0032691555     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9905324     Document Type: Article

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