Polymer nomenclature: The controversy between source-based and structure-based representations (A personal perspective)

Progress in Polymer Science (Oxford)

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-100

  Wilks, E S ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CONDENSATION; CROSSLINKING; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYAMIDES; POLYETHERS; RESINS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

LINEAR POLYMERS; STRUCTURAL REPEATING UNITS (SRU);

POLYMERS;

EID: 0033731701     PISSN: 00796700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6700(00)00007-1     Document Type: Review

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