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  • snowballing radical generation leads to ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polymers
    Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2012
    Co-Authors: Paola Laurino, Hugo F Hernandez, Judith Brauer, Kathleen Kruger, Hansjorg Grutzmacher, Klaus Tauer, Peter H Seeberger
    Abstract:

    Styrene is the classical monomer obeying zero-one kinetics in radical emulsion polymerization. Accordingly, particles that are less than 100 nm in diameter contain either one or no growing radical(s). We describe a unique photoinitiated polymerization reaction accelerated by snowballing radical generation in a continuous flow reactor. Even in comparison to classical emulsion polymerization, these unprecedented snowballing reactions are rapid and high-yielding, with each particle simultaneously containing more than one growing radical. This is a consequence of photoinitiator incorporation into the nascent polymer backbone and repeated radical generation upon photo-irradiation.

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  • high pressure atom transfer radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate for well defined ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polymers
    Polymer, 2008
    Co-Authors: Toshihiko Arita, Yuzo Kayama, Kohji Ohno, Yoshinobu Tsujii, Takeshi Fukuda
    Abstract:

    Abstract The feasibility of high-pressure atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) for synthesizing well-defined Polymers of extraordinarily high Molecular Weights was demonstrated. ATRP of methyl methacrylate (MMA) under pressures up to 500 MPa was investigated at 60 °C. The addition of a small amount of a Cu(II)Cl 2 /ligand complex along with the general benefits of high pressure of enhancing propagation and suppressing termination brought about an excellent control of polymerization even with an extremely low concentration of ATRP initiator. For example, there was produced PMMA with a number-average Molecular Weight M n of 3.6 × 10 6 and a polydispersity index of 1.24, which had never been achieved by conventional ATRP.

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  • snowballing radical generation leads to ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polymers
    Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2012
    Co-Authors: Paola Laurino, Hugo F Hernandez, Judith Brauer, Kathleen Kruger, Hansjorg Grutzmacher, Klaus Tauer, Peter H Seeberger
    Abstract:

    Styrene is the classical monomer obeying zero-one kinetics in radical emulsion polymerization. Accordingly, particles that are less than 100 nm in diameter contain either one or no growing radical(s). We describe a unique photoinitiated polymerization reaction accelerated by snowballing radical generation in a continuous flow reactor. Even in comparison to classical emulsion polymerization, these unprecedented snowballing reactions are rapid and high-yielding, with each particle simultaneously containing more than one growing radical. This is a consequence of photoinitiator incorporation into the nascent polymer backbone and repeated radical generation upon photo-irradiation.