Study of chain branching in natural rubber using size-exclusion chromatography coupled with a multi-angle light scattering detector (SEC-MALS)

European Polymer Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2249-2259

  Kim, Chandy ^a   Beuve, Jerome Sainte ^b   Guilbert, Stephane ^b   Bonfils, Frédéric ^b  

^a Cambodian Rubber Research Institute   (Cambodia)

^b UMR IATE   (France)

Author keywords

Branching; Nanoaggregate; Natural rubber; SEC MALS

Indexed keywords

BRANCHING; CHAIN BRANCHING; CHARACTERISATION; COLUMN PACKINGS; COMPACT STRUCTURES; GEL PHASE; LONG CHAIN BRANCHING; MASTER CURVE; MOLAR MASS DISTRIBUTION; MULTI-ANGLE LIGHT SCATTERINGS; NANOAGGREGATE; NANOAGGREGATES; NATURAL RUBBER; NATURAL RUBBERS; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR; SEC-MALS;

CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; GELATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; REFRACTION; RUBBER; SYNTHETIC RUBBER;

SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 67650644917     PISSN: 00143057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2009.05.015     Document Type: Article

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