New Vistas in Frontal Polymerization |
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| Authors: | Alberto Mariani Simone Bidali Stefano Fiori Giulio Malucelli Laura Ricco |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Sassari, and local INSTM Research Unit, via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy, Fax: +39079212069;2. Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica, and local INSTM Research Unit, Politecnico di Torino, C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy;3. Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Genova, and local INSTM Research Unit, via Dodecaneso 31, 16146 Genova, Italy |
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| Abstract: | ![]()
Frontal Polymerization is a technique for the synthesis of polymers that, by exploiting the heat liberated by the self-same reaction, generates a hot front that can sustain and propagate itself from one end of the reactor to the other converting monomer into polymer. After the activation and following formation of the front, it is not necessary to provide any other form of energy in order to carry out polymerization. In this article we will summarize some of the recent results we have obtained in the application of Frontal Polymerization to the preparation of polyurethanes, unsaturated polyester resins, and polyacrylates. |
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| Keywords: | atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) frontal polymerization polyacrylates polyurethanes unsaturated polyester resins |
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