Going Beyond the Carothers, Flory and Stockmayer Equation by Including Cyclization Reactions and Mobility Constraints

A challenge in the field of polymer network synthesis by a step-growth mechanism is the quantification of the relative importance of inter- vs. intramolecular reactions. Here we use a matrix-based kinetic Monte Carlo (<i>k</i>MC) framework to demonstrate that the variation of the chain l...

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Main Authors: Lies De Keer, Paul H. M. Van Steenberge, Marie-Françoise Reyniers, Dagmar R. D’hooge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Series:Polymers
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/13/15/2410