화학공학소재연구정보센터
Polymer, Vol.42, No.16, 6811-6815, 2001
Controlled grafting of a well-defined polymer on a porous glass filter by surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization
The atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) technique using the copper halide/sparteine complexes was applied to the graft polymerization of methyl methacrylate on a porous glass filter on which the initiator, 2-(4-chlorosulfonylphenyl) ethyltrichlorosilane, was immobilized by chemisorption. The graft chains were cleaved from the glass filter by the HF treatment in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst. Gel permeation chromatographic and infrared absorption spectroscopic measurements confirmed that the polymerization carried out in the presence of the free (sacrificing) initiator, p-toluenesulfonyl chloride, afforded a graft layer of well-controlled, low-polydispersity polymer on the inner surface of the porous glass filter. The number-average molecular weight (M-n) of the graft polymer increased with reaction time, and it was nearly equal to the M-n of the free polymer produced in the solution. The graft density on the inner surface of the porous glass filter was as high as those formed on a silicon wafer and a silica particle under similar conditions.