화학공학소재연구정보센터
Macromolecules, Vol.32, No.14, 4525-4531, 1999
Radical polymerization initiated from a solid substrate. 1. Theoretical background
From a survey of the literature on grafting free radical polymerization from solid surfaces we suggest kinetic schemes for the process. The system of differential equations in partial derivatives including the diffusion equation based on the classical theory of free radical polymerization and the assumption that surface-bonded free radicals terminate by (1) reactions with bulk free radicals and (2) chain transfer to solvent or monomer are introduced. Computer simulations performed using the equations have shown good agreement with the characteristic features of the grafting process; The rate of grafting is Linearly proportional to the surface concentration of the initiator and decreases as the initiation rate in the bulk increases. It follows from the concentration profiles of the bulk free radicals that free radical concentration in the vicinity of the surface can be several times larger than that in the bulk. The concentration profile depends on the distance between two surfaces. For distances less than a critical distance of about 2 mu m, the concentration profile of the bulk free radicals is homogeneous.