Molecular weight and long chain branch distributions of branch-block olefinic thermoplastic elastomers

Macromolecular Theory and Simulations

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 386-400

  Nele, Márcio ^a   Soares, João B P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elastomers; Poly (propylene); Polyethylene; Polymer reaction engineering; Thermoplastics

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOMERS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS (MWD);

THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMERS;

ALKENE DERIVATIVE; COPOLYMER; ELASTOMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION; PREDICTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0043172241     PISSN: 10221344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mats.200350007     Document Type: Article

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