Ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer suppliers

The standard contains a table of test temperatures and loads for each polymer. Polymers which have a very wide range of viscosities have up to three sets of test conditions to accommodate them. Consequently for materials such as ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer care must be taken to note the code letter (in this case B, D. or Z) in comparing different suppliers literature. 

Suspension Polymerization. At very low levels of stabilizer, eg, 0.1 wt %, the polymer does not form a creamy dispersion that stays indefinitely suspended in the aqueous phase but forms small beads that settle and may be easily separated by filtration (qv) (69). This suspension or pead polymerization process has been used to prepare polymers for adhesive and coating applications and for conversion to poly (vinyl alcohol). Products in bead form are available from several commercial suppliers of PVAc resins. Suspension polymerizations are carried out with monomer-soluble initiators predominandy, with low levels of stabilizers. Suspension copolymerization processes for the production of vinyl acetate—ethylene bead products have been described and the properties of the copolymers determined (70). Continuous tubular polymerization of vinyl acetate in suspension (71,72) yields stable dispersions of beads with narrow particle size distributions at high yields. 

There were also attempts to calibrate the SEC columns with help of broad molar mass dispersity poplymers but this is less lehable. The most common and well credible SEC cahbration standards are linear polystyrenes, PS, which are prepared by the anionic polymerizatioa As indicated in section 11.7, according to lUPAC, the molar mass values determined by means of SEC based on PS calibration standards are to be designated polystyrene equivalent molar masses . Other common SEC calibrants are poly(methyl methaciylate)s, which are important for eluents that do not dissolve polystyrenes, such as hexafluoroisopropanol, further poly(ethylene oxide)s, poly(vinyl acetate)s, polyolefins, dextrans, pullulans, some proteins and few others. The situation is much more complicated with complex polymers such as copolymers. For example, block copolymers often contain their parent homopolymers (see sections 11.8.3, 11.8.6 and 11.9). The latter are hardly detectable by SEC, which is often apphed for copolymer characterization by the suppliers (compare Figure 16). Therefore, it is hardly appropriate to consider them standards. Molecules of statistical copolymers of the same both molar mass and overall chemical composition may well differ in their blockiness and therefore their coils may assume distinct size in solution. In the case of complex polymers and complex polymer systems, the researchers often seek support in other characterization methods such as nuclear magnetic resonance, matrix assisted desorption ionization mass spectrometry and like. 

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