In this work, based on experimental observations and exact theoretical predictions, the kinetic scheme of RAFT polymerization is extended to a wider range of reactions such as irreversible intermediate radical terminations and reversible transfer reactions. The reactions which have been labeled as kinetic scheme are the more probable existing reactions as the theoretical point of view. The ...

This paper deals with the conflict between simplicity and optimality in searching for a stationary target whose location is distributed in two dimensions, thus continuing an analysis that was begun in World War II. The search is assumed to be of the “piled-slab” type, where each slab consists of a uniform search of some simple region. The measure of simplicity is the number of regions (smaller ...

in current work a comprehensive mechanism based on intermediate radical termination theory is assumed for raft polymerization of styrene over cumyl dithiobenzoate as raft agent. rate constants for addition (ka) and fragmentation reactions (kf) are set to 6×106 and 5×104 respectively, which lead to an equilibrium constant value of k = ka/kf = 1.2 x 102. moment equations method was used to model ...