Chemical Reactions in Polymeric Systems the Non-Mean-Field Kinetics

For nonreacting polymer mixtures, several efforts have been made to elucidate the effects of viscoelasticity on phase separation of polymer mixtures from a theoretical viewpoint [40, 41]. These particular effects on phase separation were shown to be important as a long-range interaction in the phase separation kinetics of polymer mixtures [42]. On the other hand, for reacting polymer systems, very recently, Ohta and coworkers took into account the elastic effects of the polymer on the phase separation kinetics of a mixture composed of liquid crystals dissolved in monomer undergoing polymerization [43]. 

Chemical Reactions in Polymeric Systems the Non-Mean-Field Kinetics 

Reaction kinetics was monitored for two cases photodimerization of anthracene in the bulk state of binary polymer mixtures, and photopolymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomer containing a photoreactive polymer as a minor component in the liquid state. 

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