TY - JFULL AU - Mehdi Salami-Kalajahi and Pejman Ganjeh-Anzabi and Vahid Haddadi-Asl and Mohammad Najafi PY - 2010/9/ TI - Universal Kinetic Modeling of RAFT Polymerization using Moment Equations T2 - International Journal of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering SP - 477 EP - 486 VL - 4 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/6272 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 44, 2010 N2 - In the following text, we show that by introducing universal kinetic scheme, the origin of rate retardation and inhibition period which observed in dithiobenzoate-mediated RAFT polymerization can be described properly. We develop our model by utilizing the method of moments, then we apply our model to different monomer/RAFT agent systems, both homo- and copolymerization. The modeling results are in an excellent agreement with experiments and imply the validity of universal kinetic scheme, not only for dithiobenzoate-mediated systems, but also for different types of monomer/RAFT agent ones. ER -