Journal article
Gel Formation in Polymers Undergoing Radiation-Induced Crosslinking and Scission
In
Journal of Applied Polymer Science
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1976, Volume 20, Issue 12, pp. 3375-3386
Abstract
A study was made of the solubility of irradiated polyethylene. The experimental data were treated according to the Saito-Inokuti theory for gel formation in polymers exposed to ionizing radiation. Among other things, this theory is based upon the molecular weight distribution of the unirradiated polymer; in the present work, the actual distributions were determined by high-temperature gel permeation chromatography and corrected for long-chain branching.
Under these circumstances, good agreement between theory and experimental data was obtained, which allowed the determination of the radiation yield of main-chain scission and crosslinking.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 1976 |
| Pages: | 3375-3386 |
| ISSN: | 10974628 and 00218995 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1002/app.1976.070201217 |
