Radical Polymerization Kinetics Of Non Ionized And Fully Ionized Monomers Studied By Pulsed Laser Epr

The radical polymerization kinetics of non-ionized and fully-ionized monomers in organic and aqueous solution was investigated by SP-PLP-EPR, i.e., highly time-resolved single-pulse-pulsed-laser-polymerization (SP-PLP) in conjunction with electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Dicumyl peroxide as the photoinitiator allowed for investigations into the chain-length dependence of the termination rate coefficient, kt, of styrene bulk polymerization. The Composite Model perfectly represents the chain-length-dependence of kt for styrene and for all other monomers studied within the p ...