Tuning polyethylene chain topology via ring incorporation in chain walking ethylene polymerization

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4946-4949

  Xiang, Peng ^a   Ye, Zhibin ^a   Morgan, Shawn ^a   Xia, Xuewei ^a   Liu, Wei ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN TOPOLOGY; CHAIN WALKING POLYMERIZATION; ETHYLENE POLYMERIZATION; ETHYLENE PRESSURE; POLYETHYLENE CHAINS; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMER MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE LEVEL; VISCOSITY DETECTORS;

ETHYLENE; POLYMERIZATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMOPLASTICS; TOPOLOGY;

POLYMERS;

EID: 67651091441     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma9007434     Document Type: Article

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