Copolymerization as a Markov Chain
- 1 November 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 39 (9) , 2303-2309
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1701434
Abstract
The concept of Markov chains has been employed to derive the degree‐of‐polymerization distribution, the over‐all composition, and the compositional distribution for copolymers containing any number of different monomers. The results are then used to obtain explicit expressions for systems of two monomers. It is shown that this method, because of its conciseness and ease of generalization, is particularly well adapted for problems in copolymerization statistics.Keywords
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