A technique for determining weight-average molecular weights of polymers in solution. The low angle – 2–10° – reduces the number of measurements needed and simplifies their interpretation, as compared with conventional, wide-angle light scattering. (Kamide K, Dobashi T (2000) Physical chemistry of polymer solutions. Elsevier, New York; Berne BJ (2000) Dynamic light scattering: Applications to chemistry, biology and physics. Dover, New York)
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Gooch, J.W. (2011). Low-Angle Laser-Light Scattering. In: Gooch, J.W. (eds) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6247-8_7047
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