Under the assumption that the chemical linkage of unbranched polymers was attacked only when it was situated in the amorphous part of crystalline polymers, the rate of decomposition, the distribution of the polymerization degree of the decomposition product and the average degree of polymerization were calculated.
U= (weight average DP)/(number average DP)-1, a measure of the heterogeneity increases, by random decomposition, with the increasing degree of the decomposition, passes a maximum and then decreases, while in the present case
U vers decomposition curve has a maximum and a minimum. When the decomposition degree is the same and not so high, the weight average DP of the both random and selective decomposition product is similar.
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