TANG AU-CHIN, KIANG YUAN-SUN. ON THE PROBLEM OF THE SOL-GEL DISTRIBUTION OF THE CROSS-LINKED LONG-CHAIN POLYMERS[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 1964,6(1):13-24.
TANG AU-CHIN, KIANG YUAN-SUN. ON THE PROBLEM OF THE SOL-GEL DISTRIBUTION OF THE CROSS-LINKED LONG-CHAIN POLYMERS[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 1964,6(1):13-24.DOI:
A theoretical calculation on the sol fraction of the cross-linked long-chain polymers is given. It is based on the following three assumptions:1)that gel is an infinite network;2)that either units of sol or units of gel are cross—linked with equal probability;3)that the cross-linking process within a molecule (cyclization) occurs in gel,but may be neglected in sol.By using two independent methods,namely,the direct summation of infinite series and the probability derivation,the sol fraction formula of cross-linked high polymer produced from initial linear polymer obeying an arbitrary distribution is obtained.Vari-ous special cases are discussed.