Circular polyolefins: Advances toward a sustainable future

D Hassanian-Moghaddam, N Asghari… - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plastics offer several advantages, but their production and disposal processes have severe
environmental implications. To overcome these issues, there is a need to switch from the …

Beauty of Explicit Dispersity (Đ) Equations in Controlled Polymerizations

TT Wang, YN Zhou, ZH Luo, S Zhu - ACS Macro Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Dispersity (Đ) as a critical parameter indicates the level of uniformity of the polymer molar
mass or chain length. In the past several decades, the development of explicit equations for …

On Generalizing Sarle's Bimodality Coefficient as a Path towards a Newly Composite Bimodality Coefficient

N Tarbă, ML Voncilă, CA Boiangiu - Mathematics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Determining whether a distribution is bimodal is of great interest for many applications.
Several tests have been developed, but the only ones that can be run extremely fast, in …

Modeling of the Copolymerization of Propylene with 1‐Hexene to Predict the Copolymer Molecular Weight and Composition

F Herrero, A Brandolin, C Sarmoria… - Macromolecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A detailed mathematical model of the propylene‐1‐hexene copolymerization based on the
two‐dimensional probability generation function technique is developed. It calculates the …