Journal
MACROMOLECULES
Volume 39, Issue 8, Pages 3019-3023Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma0527000
Keywords
-
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Here we demonstrate, for the first time, that it is possible to synthesize a polymer that exhibits no orientational birefringence and no photoelastic birefringence using two methods. In these methods, the contributions of monomers and an anisotropic dopant to orientational birefringence and photoelastic birefringence are analyzed experimentally, after which the composition of a ternary copolymer or a binary copolymer including the dopant is adjusted, based on the results, to compensate for both types of birefringence. By the methods and fine adjustment of the composition, we synthesized poly(methyl methacrylate (MMA)/2,2,2-trifluoroethyl methacrylate (3FMA)/benzyl methacrylate = 52.0/42.0/6.0(w/w/w)) and poly(MMA/3FMA = 85.0/15.0(w/w)) containing 2.8 wt % of trans-stilbene that exhibited close to zero birefringence.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available