Well-defined, model long chain branched polyethylene. 1. Synthesis and characterization

Macromolecules

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2424-2436

  Hadjichristidis, Nikos ^a   Xenidou, Maria ^a,b   Iatrou, Hermis ^a   Pitsikalis, Marinos ^a   Poulos, Yiannis ^a   Avgeropoulos, Apostolis ^a   Sioula, Stella ^a   Paraskeva, Stella ^a   Velis, Gabriel ^a   Lohse, David J ^b   Schulz, Donald N ^b   Fetters, Lewis J ^b   Wright, Pamela J ^b   Mendelson, Robert A ^b   García Franco, César A ^b   Sun, Thomas ^b   Ruff, Charles J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIONIC POLYMERIZATION; BUTADIENE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; HYDROGENATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SILANES; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CHLOROSILANE; ZIMM-STOCKMAYER MODEL;

POLYETHYLENES;

EID: 12944281500     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma991670w     Document Type: Article

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