Figure 5
From: Dynamic Networks that Drive the Process of Irreversible Step-Growth Polymerization
Illustration of three types of gel growth behaviour: (a) steep growth, (b) slow growth, (c) gel does not reach full system size. The different types of behaviour are cased by the composition of monomers. Two groups are depicted: (1) solid lines, gel point at pA,critical = 0.5, (a) A3:B3 = 1:1, (b) A6:B6:A2:B2 = 1:1:9:9, (c) A6:B6:A1:B1 = 1:1:9:9; (2) dashed lines, gel point at pA,critical = 0.33, (a) A4:B4 = 1:1, (b) A8:B8:A2:B2 = 1:1:8:8, (c) A8:B8:A1:B1 = 1:1:11:11.
