Dispersity in Polymer Science
IUPAC Standards Online2016
Abstract
This recommendation defines just three terms, viz., (1) molar-mass dispersity, relative-molecular-mass dispersity, or molecular-weight dispersity; (2) degree-of-polymerization dispersity; and (3) dispersity. “Dispersity” is a new word, coined to replace the misleading, but widely used term “polydispersity index” for M¯w/M¯n and X¯w/X¯n. The document, although brief, also has a broader significance in that it seeks to put the terminology describing dispersions of distributions of properties of polymeric (and non-polymeric) materials on an unambiguous and justifiable footing.
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