The Chain Length Distribution of an Ideal Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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