ISSN:
0022-3832
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
The Morey-Tamblyn turbidity method has been used to investigate the molecular weight distribution in a series of polymethyl methacrylates including commercial and experimental injection moulding powders. Evidence has been obtained that the increase in rate of polymerization occuring in the polymerization of methyl methacrylate (Norrish-Smith effect) causes widening of the distribution in high conversion polymers, but the separation into multiple peaks reported by other authors has not been observed. From an examination of specially prepared polymers, e.g., at small degrees of conversion, it is concluded that chain combination is a more likely termination process than disproportionation.
Additional Material:
12 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pol.1951.120070402
