123rd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Oral Presentation
Area Oral Presentation for Young Polymer Scientists
Room No. Room 403
Time THU 09:00-09:12
Code POLY.O-1
Subject Living Anionic Polymerization of Furfuryl methacrylate
Authors Kyeongsoo Shin, Myung-Han Yoon1,*, Jae suk Lee 2,*
Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
1Division of Advanced Materials Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
2Department of Advanced Materials Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Abstract Furfuryl methacrylate (FMA) is an interesting material because of the presence of the furan group as the reactive diene functionality. However, FMA cannot be polymerized by the conventional radical polymerization due to the side reaction, where radicals attack the reactive furfuryl group in the polymer and in the monomer. As a result, FMA becomes insoluble and gelled polymers even at low conversion, due to excessive chain transfer. Many researchers have developed different methods to prevent this side reaction, which are Atomic Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) and (Reversible Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer) RAFT. These methods were the success for FMA polymerization without insoluble and gelled polymer. However, the method of anionic polymerization did not go unreported for controlled polymerization which is a narrow polydispersity index (PDI) and controlled molecular weight. So, we try to polymerize the FMA having narrow PDI and controlled molecular weight via anionic polymerization.
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