| Abstract: | A new method for calculating and correcting molecular weight distributions of polymer samples from GPC chromatograms is presented. The integral equation which relates the true molecular weight distribution of polymer sample to the chromatogram is reformulated into an equivalent variational problem of quadratic functional. The method of steepest descent in the function space is then applied to the minimization problem to obtain the true molecular weight distribution. This method is efficient and reduces some of the oscillation problems encountered in the previous methods. Examples are given. |
