Abstract
AbstractValues of the mean number of chain scissions per macromolecule and the quantum efficiency of chain scission processes are presented for systems studied in our previous works, in which the photodegradation of polystyrene in solutions irradiated with mercury light (λ ≧ 270 nm) was investigated and changes of the weight‐average molecular weight M̄w were considered to be a measure for chain scission. The presented values of the number of scissions were obtained as follows: the molar mass distributions were determined for the investigated polystyrene samples by dynamic (quasielastic) light scattering experiments, before and after irradiation, the number‐average molecular weight values M̄n were calculated from these distributions and the mean number of scissions was obtained from the changes of the M̄n values.
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