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JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 101, Issue 6, Pages 4083-4089Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/app.23352
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graft copolymers; initiators; irradiation
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Graft copolymers of cassava starch and methyl methacrylate (MMA) were synthesized by free-radical polymerization with benzoyl peroxide (BPO) as an initiator in an aqueous medium at 80 degrees C. The formation of graft copolymers was confirmed by analysis of the obtained products with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The effects of the amount of cassava starch, the amount of MMA monomer, the amount of BPO, and the reaction time on the grafting characteristics were studied. The optimum condition for grafting were obtained when 5 g of cassava starch, 5 g of MMA, 0.1 g of BPO, and a reaction time of 3 h were used. These condition provided a graft copolymer with 25.00% add-on, 81.40% monomer conversion, 54.30% homopoly(methyl methacrylate) formed, 45.70% grafting efficiency, 37.20% grafting ratio, and 95.54% yield. (c) 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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