Deterministic Modeling of Copolymer Microstructure: Composition Drift and Sequence Patterns
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| Publication date | 2015 |
| Journal | Macromolecular Reaction Engineering |
| Volume | Issue number | 9 | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 285-306 |
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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. |
| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
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https://doi.org/10.1002/mren.201400047
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