Length of subchains and chain ends in cross-linked polymer networks

Macromolecules

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 4646-4658

  Lang, Michael ^a   Göritz, Dietmar ^a   Kreitmeier, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKED POLYMER NETWORKS; INTRAMOLECULAR LOOPS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSLINKING; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION);

INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORKS;

EID: 0037934708     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma034044e     Document Type: Article

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