Published December 1976 | Version v1
Journal article

Gel formation in polymers undergoing radiation-induced crosslinking and scission

  • 1. Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Risoe

Description

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

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Dose rate of 1 Mrad/sec; 10-MeV electrons

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Journal Title
Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Journal Volume
20
Journal Issue
12
Series
J. Appl. Polym. Sci.
Journal Page Range
3375-3386
ISSN
0021-8995

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