Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of Applied Polymer Science |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| Pages (from-to) | 3375-3386 |
| ISSN | 0021-8995 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1976 |