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ATRP RAFT ROMP FRP Polyurethane Emulsion

Design a recipe for ATRP, RAFT, ROMP, FRP, polyurethanes, or emulsion polymerization. Then search structures, predict Tg and dispersity, and read your GPC and thermal data, with the technique guides to actually run the reaction.

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Calculator

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Target Mโ‚™, DP, or concentration across ATRP, RAFT, ROMP, and FRP, plus polyurethane and emulsion formulations, macroinitiators, and a block copolymer builder.

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Structure search

Search Polymers by Structure

Draw a repeat unit and match it against a 968-entry curated library, copolymer blocks included, or search by name, trade name, or CAS. Reads names off photos, labels, and PDFs too.

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Build a Polymer Chain

An 8-bit maze game about the thing this whole site is for. Collect every monomer bead while O₂, an inhibitor and a chain transfer agent hunt your growing radical — and the real score is not points, it is your dispersity.

  • 25 levels
  • Polyethylene → carbyne
  • Đ is the score
  • Plays offline
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Copolymer Composition

Predict instantaneous copolymer composition from feed ratio and reactivity ratios, with a composition diagram and azeotrope detection.

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Dispersity (ฤ) Predictor

Predict the narrowest ฤ a RAFT, ATRP, or NMP reaction can reach from its target DP, conversion, and exchange chemistry, with a live molecular-weight distribution.

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Distribution Simulator

The whole molecular weight distribution, not just Đ: living chains, the dead-chain tail, and what your GPC’s band broadening would do to it.

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Tg Predictor

Estimate a random copolymer or miscible blend's glass transition temperature from its components using the Fox equation.

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Chain Dimensions

Persistence length, Kuhn length, contour length and radius of gyration from a database of measured values, each quoted with the solvent it was measured in.

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Flory–Huggins Phase Behaviour

Binodal, spinodal and critical point for a blend or a solution, the cloud point from χ(T), and the order–disorder transition of a diblock.

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Step-Growth & Gel Point

Degree of polymerization from conversion and stoichiometric imbalance, and when a multifunctional formulation gels — by both Carothers and Flory–Stockmayer.

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Crosslink Density

Mₛ from equilibrium swelling by Flory–Rehner, or from the rubbery plateau modulus, with the two routes compared and their disagreement explained.

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Network Formation

Gel point, sol fraction and elastic strand density for any mix of functionalities and off-stoichiometry, by the Macosko–Miller recursive method.

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Free-Radical Kinetics

Rate of polymerization, kinetic chain length and DPₙ from the rate constants, plus chain transfer by Mayo and initiator half-life.

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Recipe Scaling

Scale any recipe up or down by a factor or between batch sizes while keeping every component's ratio the same.

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Recent polymer papers from the past week, with any early citations surfaced first

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One new chemistry question every day. You get three tries.

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