环境友好与快速高效的可见光活化室温水溶液RAFT聚合-高分子化学与物理专业论文.docxVIP

PAGE PAGE VI Abstract Reversible Addition Fragmentation chain Transfer radical polymerization or RAFT polymerization has got much attention since its discovery. It has become a powerful technique for the synthesis of well-defined polymers or copolymers with both low polydispersity and functionalized end groups. From both academic and industrial standpoints, it is desirable to develop a rapid and well-controlled RAFT polymerization under mild aqueous conditions. This thesis describes the RAFT polymerization of acrylic monomers, including poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether acrylate (PEGA), N-(2-acryloyloxyethyl) pyrrolidone (NAP), 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate (HEA) in acidic aqueous solution under mild visible light radiation at 25 oC. The thermo-activating effect of this aqueous RAFT polymerization was investigated. A periodic light-on-off process was employed for this aqueous RAFT polymerization to investigate the effect of visible light. The experimental results demonstrate that EDMAT exhibits an absorption covering a wide visible light wave range of 388-520 nm, which makes it possible that this RAFT polymerization may be accelerated by the visible light. This chain transfer agent is stable in acidic aqueous solution, but liable to hydrolysis in alkali or neutral solution. This RAFT polymerization proceeds rapidly and well-controlled in acidic aqueous solution at 25 oC, simply upon radiation with visible light. The kinetic character of this RAFT polymerization at 7 oC is quite similar to what observed at 25 oC, which also proceeded rapidly and keeping living character. This suggests the negligible thermo-activating effect of this aqueous RAFT polymerization. A periodic light-on-off process leads to a corresponding repeatable periodic polymerization-on-off process. The essentially polymerization-standstill state in the light-off period indicated the negligible concentration of active radicals and the significantly slow intermediate fragmentation reaction. Furth