Kinetics of the homopolymerization of vinylidene fluoride and its copolymerization with hexafluoropropylene in supercritical carbon dioxide: The locus of polymerization

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 148-155

  Ahmed, Tamer S ^a   DeSimone, Joseph M ^a,b   Roberts, George W ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN INITIATIONS; CHAIN PROPAGATION; CONTINUOUS PHASE; CONTINUOUS POLYMERIZATIONS; CONTINUOUS STIRRED-TANK REACTORS; CURRENT RANGES; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; HETEROGENEOUS POLYMERIZATIONS; HEXAFLUOROPROPYLENE; KINETIC MODELS; NUMBER AVERAGES; POLYMER COMPOSITIONS; POLYMER PARTICLES; POLYMER PHASE; POLYMERIZATION MODELS; POLYMERIZATION REACTIONS; PRECIPITATION POLYMERIZATIONS; RATE OF POLYMERIZATIONS; RICH PHASE; SOLUTION POLYMERIZATIONS; SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDES; SURFACE POLYMERIZATIONS; VINYLIDENE FLUORIDES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; COPOLYMERIZATION; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; MONOMERS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION;

POLYMERS;

EID: 61649109329     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma801911j     Document Type: Article

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