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JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Volume 42, Issue 7, Pages 1630-1646Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pola.20012
Keywords
photopolymerization; cationic polymerization; frontal polymerization; oxetane monomers; epoxide monomers; ring-opening polymerization
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The photoinitiated cationic ring-opening polymerizations of certain epoxides and 3,3-disubstituted oxetanes display the characteristics of frontal polymerizations. When irradiated with UV light, these monomers display a marked induction period, during which little conversion of the monomer to the polymer takes place. The local application of heat to an irradiated monomer sample results in polymerization that occurs as a front propagating rapidly throughout the entire reaction mass. For the characterization of these frontal polymerizations, the use of a new monitoring technique, employing optical pyrometry, has been instituted. This method provides a simple, rapid means of following these fast polymerizations and quantitatively determining their frontal velocities. (C) 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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