Deterministic Modeling of Copolymer Microstructure: Composition Drift and Sequence Patterns
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| Publication date |
2015
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| Journal |
Macromolecular Reaction Engineering
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| Volume | Issue number |
9 | 3
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| Pages (from-to) |
285-306
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Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS)
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| Abstract |
A concept of a population balance is applied to study evolving structures of propagating linear copolymer chains. As a result, a general numerical toolbox was developed capable to handle various copolymerization mechanisms utilizing two-dimensional distributions as means of system description. The method was applied to free radical copolymerization of styrene-acrylonitrile explaining peculiar bimodality in chain length distribution observed for asymmetrical initial monomer ratios.
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| Document type |
Article
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1002/mren.201400047
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