Synthesis and characterization of amphiphilic diblock copolymer of polystyrene and polyvinyl alcohol using ethanolamine–benzophenone as photochemical binary initiation system
✍ Scribed by Zaijun Lu; Xiaoyu Huang; Junlian Huang
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0887-624X
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✦ Synopsis
Amphiphilic diblock copolymers of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and polystyrene (PS), which are very difficult to prepare by common polymerization methods, have been obtained by initiation of the polymerization of styrene and vinyl acetate successively, followed by hydrolysis, using the ethanolamine-benzophenone (BP) charge-transfer complex (CTC). The effects of solvents, concentration of monomer, BP, ethanolamine, and PS prepolymer, with a reactive imino group (PS a ), on the photo-induced chargetransfer polymerization (CTP) of St and block copolymerization of VAc are discussed. The copolymer of PS-b-PVAc and the hydrolyzed product, PS-b-PVA, were characterized by FTIR, NMR, and GPC in detail. The effect of PS chain length on the crystallization of PVA was described.