Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: PMMA: Poly Methyl Methacrylate; HEMA: Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate; FDA: Food and Drug Administration; BCLA: British Contact Lens Association; ACHIEVE: Adolescent and Child Health Initiative to Encourage Vision Empowerment; UDVA: Uncorrected Distance Visual Activity; IOL: Intraocular Lens; IOP: Intraocular Pressure; MEMS: Micro Electro M...

The introduction of high molecular weight poly(methyI methacrylate) or poly(butadiene-co-acrylonitrile) into ethyl 2-cyanoacrylate produced viscous adhesives with a homogeneous or heterogeneous structure after cure. Steel joints bonded with these adhesives are shown to have improved tensile shear strength, deformability and stress relaxation of bonds compared with pure cyanoacrylate adhesive. P...

We present a straightforward low cost liquid phase deposition method to coat arbitrary-shaped dielectric substrates with uniform electron beam sensitive polymer films. Furthermore, we investigate the use of electron beam lithography to pattern the coated pre-form substrates. The polymers studied are poly-methyl-methacrylate with different molecular weights, poly(methyl methacrylate-co-ethyl acr...

We compare the efficacies of three preparation methods intended to create in an easy and inexpensive way a nonpreferential surface for a two-component homopolymer blend of polystyrene and poly(methyl methacrylate). The first method is to physically absorb two different high molecular weight copolymers of styrene and methyl methacrylate onto hydroxylated silicon oxide. The second method consists...

We report an on-line coupling of gel permeation chromatography (GPC) to Fourier transform mass spectrometry (FTMS) using a modified commercial electrospray ionization (ESI) interface. Selected oligomer profiles for the sodiated (1+ through 5+ charge states) oligomer ions of a narrow-molecular-weight poly(methyl methacrylate) were generated and used for obtaining a calibration curve. Using the M...

A new graft copolymer, poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate-co-styrene) -graft-poly( -caprolactone), was prepared by combination of reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (RAFT) with coordination-insertion ringopening polymerization (ROP). The copolymerization of styrene (St) and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) was carried out at 60 °C in the presence of 2-phenylprop-2-y...

An extension of the transferable potentials for phase equilibria-united atom (TraPPE-UA) force field to acrylate and methacrylate monomers is presented. New parameters were fit to the liquid density, normal boiling point, saturated vapor pressure, and (where experimentally available) critical constants of 1,3-butadiene, isoprene, methyl acrylate, and methyl methacrylate using Gibbs ensemble Mon...

The present study is aimed at predicting downward flame spread characteristics over poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) with different sample dimensions in different pressure environments. Three-dimensional (3-D) downward flame spread experiments on free PMMA slabs were conducted at five locations with different altitudes, which provide different pressures. Pressure effects on the flame spread rat...

We synthesized the novel methacrylate monomer bearing an oxazolidone structure (M1) and performed radical polymerization of M1 by traditional procedures. The glass transition temperature (Tg) obtained polymer (P1) was a significantly high value compared to that poly(methyl methacrylate) typical poly(urethane methacrylate)s. copolymers monofunctional urethane derived from 2-hydroxyethyl phenyl i...