Gamma radiation-induced graft copolymerization of styrene onto poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) films was studied using simultaneous irradiation technique. The effects of grafting conditions on the degree of grafting were investigated. The grafting conditions include monomer concentration, irradiation dose, dose rate, and the type of solvent. Moreover, the effect of the addition of crosslinki...

The semicontinuous heterophase polymerization of styrene in the presence of cross-linking and porogen agents was carried out. Latexes with close to 20% solid content, which contained mesoporous nanoparticles with 28 nm in average diameters, up to 0.5 cm3/g in porosity and 6-8 nm in pore diameters were obtained. By varying the monomer dosing rate over the micellar solution, an unexpected direct ...

N,N-dichloropolystyrene sulfonamide as a decontaminant was synthesized in 5 steps from styrene monomer. Styrene was first polymerized. Then, sulfonation reaction was performed by H2SO4 (c) followed by chlorination with POCl3 obtain chlorosulfonated polystyrene. Amidification reaction was then applied to get sulfonamide resin. Sulfonamide resin was treat...

Metal-organic frameworks, MOFs, offer an effective template for polymerisation of polymers with precisely controlled structures within the sub-nanometre scales. However, synthetic difficulties such as monomer infiltration, detailed understanding mechanisms MOF nanochannels and mechanism removing post have prevented wide scale implementation in MOFs. This is partly due to significant lack energe...

Electrospun polystyrene materials have been employed as oil absorbents, but they have visible drawbacks such as poor strength at low temperature and unreliable integrity because of brittleness and insufficient cohesive force among fibers. Butyl acrylate can polymerize into flexible chains, and its polymer can be used as elastomer and adhesive material. Thereby it is possible to obtain the mater...

Modification of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C(3)N(4)) photocatalyst with transition metals was achieved with a simple soft-chemical approach using dicyandiamide monomer and metal chloride as precursors, in combination with a thermal-induced polycondensation at 600 °C under nitrogen atmosphere. The resultant organic-inorganic hybrid materials were thoroughly characterized by a variety of techniq...

Photo-induced cationic polymerizations of styrene and x-methylstyrene, which are weak electron donors and contain no hetero atom, were carried out in the presence of electron acceptors such as tetracyanobenzene and pyromellitic dianhydride to elucidate the polymerization mechanism initiated through an excited charge transfer interaction. Cyclohexene oxide was also polymerized by photo-illuminat...

n,n-dichloropolystyrene sulfonamide as a decontaminant was synthesized in 5 steps from styrene monomer. styrene was first polymerized. then, sulfonation reaction was performed by h2so4 (c) followed by chlorination with pocl3 obtain chlorosulfonated polystyrene. amidification reaction was then applied to get sulfonamide resin. sulfonamide resin was treated with sodium hypochloride to obtain n,n-...

Polymer nanocomposites containing metals have been used in a wide range of applications due to their versatility, and tunable characteristics including physical, chemical, biological and mechanical properties. In this research work polystyrene-silver nanocomposite has been produced using polymerization of a w/o microemulsion system. Styrene monomer was used as the oil or continues phase of the ...