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Other reactions may be taken into consideration, with an effect on polymer structure, namely the formation of short- and long-chain branches. A complete list of reactions in S-PVC polymerization may be found in Kiparissides et al. [5]. On the above basis kinetic equations may be written. To keep it simple the chain transfer, back-biting and inhibition reactions are disregarded, while termination is considered to occur only by disproportionation. The elementary reaction rates for initiator decomposition and free radicals generation are as follows ... 

Graft copolymers like 1-27 are named aspoly(A-g-B) with the backbone polymer mentioned before the branch polymer. Examples are poly(ethylene- -styrene) or starch-g-polystyrene. In block copolymer nomenclature b is used in place of g and the polymers are named from an end of the species. Thus the triblock macromolecule 1-53... 

Section 2.3 focuses on various aspects of the determination of polymer structure, namely assessing the composition of the macromolecular chains, discriminating cyclic from linear and branched chains, end-groups determination, and detection of stereoregularity in polymers. 

In Chapter 6, various versions the tube model were presented, which can predict the linear viscoelasticity of monodisperse and polydisperse //near polymers i.e., polymers without long-chain branching (LCB). To be quantitatively accurate, these models need to include several mechanisms of polymer motion, namely ... 

Polyethylene (PE) is a genetic name for a large family of semicrystalline polymers used mostiy as commodity plastics. PE resins are linear polymers with ethylene molecules as the main building block they are produced either in radical polymerization reactions at high pressures or in catalytic polymerization reactions. Most PE molecules contain branches in thek chains. In very general terms, PE stmcture can be represented by the following formula ... 

The first commercial grades were introduced by Phillips Petroleum in 1968 under the trade name Ryton. These were of two types, a thermoplastic branched polymer of very high viscosity which was processed by PTFE-type processes and an initially linear polymer which could be processed by compression moulding, including laminating with glass fibre, and which was subsequently oxidatively cross-linked. 

In order to estimate the branching factor e for polyvinyl acetate we have analyzed the SEC data obtained on sample PVAc-E4 using the MWBD method with various e values. This sample was synthesized under kinetically controlled conditions (isothermal, T = 60°C, [AIBN] = 10"5 g-mole/1, conversion level of 48.5 percent). The SEC measurements were made at 25°C in tetrahydro-furan. The Mark-Houwink coefficients used for linear polyvinyl acetate are those suggested by Graessley (21), namely K = 5.1 x 10"5 dl/gm and a = 0.791. The whole polymer M, Mj, and B j values obtained are listed in Table II. 

In the case of terminal C=C (1,2 addition units), i.e. when R=R =H and R" (or R111) = polymer chain, two types of hydride migration are possible, namely (i) The Markownikoff s addition which would lead to the formation of B type repeating units and (ii) The anti Markownikoff s addition which would result in the formation of the observed repeating units C. In the case of Markownikoff s type addition the hydride transfer occurs to Ca and results in the formation of branched alkyl-rhodium intermediate complex shown by Structure 2. Whereas when anti Markownikoff s addition occurs, the resulting intermediate alkyl-rhodium complex has linear alkyl ligand as shown by Structure 3. 

High density polyethylene, shown in Fig. 18.2 a), consists primarily of linear hydrocarbon chains of the type shown in Fig. 18.1. We commonly abbreviate its name to HDPE. As with all other polymers, high density polyethylenes contain a distribution of molecular weights. The molecules have few, if any, branches. 

This branch of polymer physics is closely connected to another of I.M. Lif-shitz favorite directions in physics, namely, the theory of disordered systems [73]. The situation when different samples have only statistical similarity is typical for the physics of chaos, and many concepts I.M. Lifshitz developed are also quite naturally applied in the physics of disordered polymers. The idea of self-averaging in general and self-averaging of free energy [74], in particular, are examples of such concepts. 

In his famous work of 1920 Hermann Staudinger first described the correct structure of polystyrene (10). It was Staudinger, too, who gave polystyrene its name and elucidated the mechanism of its formation (11). The polymerization of styrene provided access to a big class of substances and made a significant contribution to the understanding of natural polymers and to the synthesis of industrial plastics. A whole new branch of the chemical industry is based on the key substance polystyrene. 

In contrast to traditional polymers, dendrimers are unique core-shell structures possessing three basic architectural components namely, (I) a core, (II) an interior of shells (,generation) consisting of repetitive branch cell units and (III) terminal functional groups (i.e. the outer shell or periphery) as illustrated in Figures 1.13 and 1.14. 

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