Full molecular weight distribution in RAFT polymerization. New mechanistic insight by direct integration of the equations

Macromolecular Theory and Simulations

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 370-388

  Zapata González, Iván ^a,b   Saldívar Guerra, Enrique ^a   Ortiz Cisneros, José ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN QUÍMICA APLICADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE COAHUILA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

computer modeling; molecular weight distribution; reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT); simulations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODELING; DIRECT INTEGRATION; INTERMEDIATE RADICAL TERMINATIONS; MODEL DISCRIMINATION; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; QUASI STEADY STATE APPROXIMATION; RADICAL TRAPPING; RAFT POLYMERIZATION; REVERSIBLE ADDITION-FRAGMENTATION CHAIN TRANSFER; SIMULATIONS; STEADY STATE APPROXIMATION; THREE MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; INTEGRATION; LIVING POLYMERIZATION; OLIGOMERS; POLYMERS;

MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79960274558     PISSN: 10221344     EISSN: 15213919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mats.201100023     Document Type: Article

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