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It was rationalized (Emanuel 1981) that to describe the kinetic processes involving radicals in polymer matrices one has to use an integro-differential equation which for the case of simple monomolecular reactions reads
where R(k) denotes the distribution of radicals according to their reactivity expressed in terms of reaction rate constant k.
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Plonka, A. (1986). Decay of Radicals in Polymer Matrices. In: Time-Dependent Reactivity of Species in Condensed Media. Lecture Notes in Chemistry, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93326-4_4
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