Toward the Development of a General Framework for Modeling Molecular Weight and Compositional Changes in Free-Radical Copolymerization Reactions

Synthetic copolymers are produced as a mixture of macromolecules with varying degree of polymerization, copolymer composition, and degree of branching. The ability to predict molecular properties in a copolymerization process as a function of the reactor operating conditions is of considerable economic importance to the polymer industry.