On the Death of Polymers: Revisiting Termination Rate Coefficients in Radical Homopolymerization
Friday, February 19, 2010 - 07:42
in Physics & Chemistry
(PhysOrg.com) -- Although radical polymerization is used in the synthesis of about half the world's polymers, details of exactly what is going on in the reaction soup in complex industrial settings have been sketchy at best. As the materials enter our lives as, for example, drugs, coatings, fibers and solar cells, controlling their reactions and therefore their properties is extremely important.