Synthesis of block copolymers using RAFT miniemulsion polymerization in a train of CSTRs

Macromolecules

Volumn 37, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 9345-9354

  Smolders, Wilfred W ^a   Jones, Christopher W ^a   Schork, F Joseph ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW RATE; HIGH-PERFORMANCE MATERIALS; REVERSIBLE ADDITION FRAGMENTATION TRANSFER (RAFT);

CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPOSITION; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROEMULSIONS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 10844277394     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma0487204     Document Type: Article

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