Branched Vinyl Polymers

Veova vinyl esters are commonly used in vinyl acetate and acrylic polymers where they greatly improve hydrolytic stability adhesion water and uv resistance.

Branched vinyl polymers.

Copolymerisations of mma and bda were carried out in toluene solution under vacuum at 80 c using a standard methodology. Furthermore radical polymerization in the presence of the peroxide monomer can be operated in a simple polymerization composition involving only the. Application of the strathclyde route to branched vinyl polymers in suspension polymerization. Branched polymers of styrene methyl methacrylate mma and vinyl acetate vac were prepared under solvent free conditions through radical polymerization in the presence of a peroxide monomer.

Graft copolymers 1 4 are one of the important classes of branched polymers and. Branched polymers have attracted increasing interest due to their numerous and various applications originating from a large variety of available polymer topologies compositions or morphologies for phase separating systems as emulsifier and interfacial compatibilizers or for surface modification properties. The copolymerization of hydrophobic vinyl ester of branched neo carboxylic acids significantly improves the performance of vinyl and acrylic binders. Veova vinyl esters have unique highly branched aliphatic structures which contribute to the enhancement of key polymer performance properties.

Manufacturing of vinyl acetate veova vinyl ester polymers is easy due to the favorable reactivity characteristics of the veova monomer and vinyl acetate. It was not until 1995 that fréchet et al. It is expected that these branched polymers will be used as polymer rheological modifiers 1 2 3 4. Also discovered is a vinyl polymer resin comprised of from 0 1 to 50 weight percent of non linear polymers having at least 0 06 branches 1000 backbone carbons where branching is measured using a heat polymerized polystyrene having from 0 0 to 0 06 branches 1000 backbone carbons as a linear reference.

Architectural thermal and rheological characterization of the derived branched products. For those reactions with 1 mol crosslinker and no thiol the reactions gelled. Reported the preparation of branched vinyl polymer through self condensing vinyl polymerization of an inimer scvp. An approach to branched vinyl polymers through radical polymerization in the presence of 3 mercaptohexyl methacrylate mhm as the chain transfer monomer is reported in this paper.

In the case of polymerization at styrene100 mhm5 0 aibn2 0 the molecular weight increased with conversion and reached a value of 7 3 105 g mol at 99 conversion. Table 1 summarises the results obtained.