Prediction of molecular weight distributions based on ab initio calculations: Application to the high temperature styrene polymerization

Macromolecules

Volumn 39, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 9641-9653

  Moscatelli, Davide ^a   Cavallotti, Carlo ^a   Morbidelli, Massimo ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOMERS; POLYMERIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; REACTION KINETICS;

HIGH-TEMPERATURE POLYMERIZATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY SURFACES; QUANTUM MECHANICS HYBRID MODELS;

MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33846225100     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma061291k     Document Type: Article

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