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Polymer and block copolymer adsorption at the silica–liquid interface

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posted on 2018-07-06, 08:52 authored by Martin J. Guest
Well-defined homopolymers of styrene, 2-vinyl pyridine and ethylene oxide and AB block copolymers of polystyrene and poly(ethylene oxide) with narrow molecular weight distributions have been prepared by anionic polymerisation techniques. These polymerisations required conditions of rigorous purity, and high vacuum and inert gas atmosphere methods have been used. The preferred anionic initiator for ethylene oxide and 2-vinyl pyridine polymerisations was cumyl potassium which was prepared by a vacuum line procedure. Polymers were characterised by gel permeation chromatography, infra-red spectroscopy, membrane osmometry and solution viscometry to determine molecular weights, polydispersity ratios and copolymer compositions. [Continues.]

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Science Research Council.

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  • Science

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  • Chemistry

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© Martin James Guest

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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1979

Notes

A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.

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  • en

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