A sensitive method to detect very low levels of long chain branching from the molar mass distribution and linear viscoelastic response

Journal of Rheology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1503-1520

  Van Ruymbeke, E ^a,b   Stphenne V ^c,d   Daoust, D ^c   Godard, P ^c   Keunings, R ^a   Bailly, C ^c  

^a Catholic University of Louvain   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Branched polymers; Constitutive equations; Polyethylene

Indexed keywords

BRANCHED POLYMERS; CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; LINEAR VISCOELASTIC RESPONSE; MOLAR MASS DISTRIBUTION;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CATALYSIS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; POLYETHYLENES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS;

EID: 33749593512     PISSN: 01486055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1122/1.2048743     Document Type: Article

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