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- adjective of a colloid Having a
range ofparticle sizes
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Examples
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The Dow Chemical polydisperse polyolefin diblock copolymers achieve the same effects with an order of magnitude lower molecular weight and without solvent processing.
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Now, Phillip D. Hustad, Jeffrey D. Weinhold, Gary R. Marchand, Eddy I. Garcia-Meitin, and Patricia L. Roberts at the company's Freeport, Texas, site have modified the technique to make polydisperse polyethylene diblock copolymers with a distribution of block lengths.
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The ability to predict the packing of polydisperse particles -- a range of sizes in a single system? has significant impact on these and related technologies.
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"Current SWCNT manufacturing techniques can only generate mixtures of nanotubes that are electronically polydisperse, i.e. that contain both metallic and semiconducting tubes," said Nathan Yoder, NanoIntegris's product development manager.
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The company has developed a novel centrifugation process for separating commercially produced, electronically polydisperse SWCNTs by electronic type.
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