Continuous precipitation polymerization of vinylidene fluoride in supercritical carbon dioxide: Formation of polymers with bimodal molecular weight distributions

Macromolecules

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 7976-7985

  Saraf, Manish K ^a   Gerard, Sylvain ^a   Wojcinski II, Louis M ^a   Charpentier, Paul A ^a,c   DeSimone, Joseph M ^a,b   Roberts, George W ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITATION POLYMERIZATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; POLYMERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REACTION KINETICS;

FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS;

EID: 0037044364     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma0203602     Document Type: Article

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