Deterministic modeling of the interplay between molecular diffusion and chemical kinetics of bulk RAFT polymerization Universiteit Gent
The objective of this thesis was to develop methods to predict the structural characteristics of RAFT polymer products resulting from predefined reaction conditions. This was achieved by modelling the reaction kinetics of this type of polymerization and validating model output with experimental data. In this work the polymerization of styrene and vinyl acetate were modeled in detail, but the same methods can be used for other monomers.