CLD Termination Rate Coefficients Theory Validation

Determination of CLD Termination Rate Coefficients Theory Validation 

In this chapter two novel methods are presented which enable the direct and model independent determination of chain-length dependent termination rate coefficients. Both methods are based on single-pulse pulsed-laser polymerization. After a theoretical derivation, both kinetic approaches are validated by means of computer simulations. As will be demonstrated, these simulations prove that the essential assumptions needed to gain access to the chain-length dependent coefficients are valid and do not significantly undermine the accurate and reliable determination of the termination rate coefficients. 

Beside the TR-SP-PLP and PLP technique, also pulse-sequence PLP experiments have been introduced [4, 9, 10], as well as so-called railroad PLP experiments [11]. The potential of the derivation of kinetic parameters from laser-initiated experiments has been reviewed by Davis [12], Recent and representative overviews of data originating from these techniques have been given by van Herk [13] and by Beuermann and Buback [14], 

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