Functional polymers bear specified chemical groups, and have specified physical, chemical, biological, pharmacological, or other uses. To adjust the properties while keeping material usage low, a method for direct synthesis of functional polymers is indispensable. Here we show that various functional polymers can be synthesized by in situ cross-linked polymerization/copolymerization. We demonst...

Copolymerization of ethylene with 1-hexene was carried out using two ansa-fluorenyl titanium derivative complexes. The substituent effect on the catalytic activity, monomer reactivity ratio and polymer property was investigated. It was found that the presence of t-Bu groups on fluorenyl ring exhibited remarkable catalytic activity and produced polymer with high molecular weight. However, these ...

High-throughput development of catalysts, initiators, and polymeric materials combines automated parallel catalyst synthesis and automated polymerization reactors. The reactors can be additionally equipped with on-line monitoring (ReactIR from Mettler) based on ATR-FT-IR technique. This powerful tool has proven to be a very valuable probe for high-throughput experiments. During copolymerization...

A detailed model was developed for the emulsion copolymerization of styrene and MMA to predict the evolution of the particle size distribution (PSD) and molecular weight distribution (MWD) over the entire range of monomer conversion. A system exhibiting zero-one kinetics was employed. The model was used to optimise the emulsion copolymerization process in order to maximize particle size polydis...