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Usage of monomer in the reaction: Rapid loss of monomer early in the reaction: Some monomer remains even at long reaction times Reaction steps: Similar steps repeated throughout reaction process: Different steps operate at different stages of mechanism (i.e. initiation, propagation, termination, and chain transfer) Average molecular weight
Monomer to RAFT reagent: gives the expected degree of polymerization (that is, the number of monomer units in each polymer chain) and can be used to estimate the molecular weight of the polymer by Equation (1) (see below). [12] [14] RAFT reagent to initiator: determines the end groups on the polymer chains.
In chain-growth polymerization the propagation step is the addition of a monomer to the growing chain. The word kinetic is added to chain length in order to distinguish the number of reaction steps in the kinetic chain from the number of monomers in the final macromolecule, a quantity named the degree of polymerization. In fact the kinetic ...
In this case, a polyamide, usually synthesized via melt polymerization, was synthesized from diamine and diacid chloride monomers. [1] [3] The diacid chloride monomers were placed in an organic solvent (benzene) and the diamene monomers in a water phase, such that when the monomers reached the interface they would polymerize. [3]
The in situ polymerization process consists of an initiation step followed by a series of polymerization steps, which results in the formation of a hybrid between polymer molecules and nanoparticles. [1] Nanoparticles are initially spread out in a liquid monomer or a precursor of relatively low molecular weight.
Bulk polymerization is carried out in the absence of any solvent or dispersant and is thus the simplest in terms of formulation. It is used for most step-growth polymers and many types of chain-growth polymers. In the case of chain-growth reactions, which are generally exothermic, the heat evolved may cause the reaction to become too vigorous ...
The light may be absorbed either directly by the reactant monomer (direct photopolymerization), or else by a photosensitizer which absorbs the light and then transfers energy to the monomer. In general, only the initiation step differs from that of the ordinary thermal polymerization of the same monomer; subsequent propagation, termination, and ...
In polymer chemistry, suspension polymerization is a heterogeneous radical polymerization process that uses mechanical agitation to mix a monomer or mixture of monomers in a liquid phase, such as water, while the monomers polymerize, forming spheres of polymer. [2] The monomer droplets (size of the order 10-1000 μm) are suspended in the liquid ...