Abstract
A challenge for the design of nonlinear polymerization is the full appreciation of the impact of side reactions, demanding the development of modeling techniques to determine the associated kinetic parameters while using the most important experimental responses. Here the combination of computationally inexpensive method of moments (MoM) kinetic simulations and dedicated principal component analysis (PCA) is put forward as a promising strategy to be successful in this respect. Focus is on (radical) vinyl grafting of chains containing unsaturations, selecting styrene (St) as monomer and polybutadiene (PB) as backbone, and low St conversions accounting for diffusional limitations on termination. It is highlighted that the less studied macropropagation cannot be directly ignored and a combined set of experimental responses related to free polystyrene and grafted copolymer (GC) average product properties is recommended for kinetic parameter estimation. This is supported by regression analysis considering in silico generated experimental data compensated for random noise and considering a validated end-chain approximation.
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