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It is known that the molecular weight distribution (MWD) formed in an emulsion polymerization of ethylene can be bimodal. However, the origin of the bimodality has not been elucidated. In this article, a Monte Carlo simulation is conducted, mostly with parameters reported in the literature. The simulated MWDs are bimodal because of the limited volume effect; that is, the high molecular weight profiles are distorted by the small particle size, which is comparable to the size of the largest branched polymer molecule in a particle. The simulated MWDs agree reasonably well with the experimentally obtained MWDs.
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