Glycidyl methacrylate -grafted polymers

Polymers of MMA, AAc, and MAA were grafted onto an ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fiber surface after pretreatment with electron beam irradiation [31]. Sundell et al. [32] pretreated a PE film with electron beams to facilitate the graft polymerization of vinyl benzylchloride onto the substrate. The inner surface of porous PE hollow fiber had also been modified by grafting of glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) polymer after electron beam irradiation [33]. 

Polymer Science Series B 37, Nos.5-6, May-June 1995, p.289-92 m SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE OF POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL)-POLY(GLYCIDYL METHACRYLATE) GRAFT COPOLYMERS... 

The first LDPE/HDPE blends were patented by du Pont de Nemours before Z-N polymers became available (Roedel 1961). The blend comprised an experimental HOPE (p = 0.939-1.096 g mL Tm 120 °C) obtained by polymerizing C2 in its own medium at T 0 °C and P 31 MPa, using, e.g., a hydroxy-cyclohexyl-L-hydroperoxide catalyzed by ferrous chloride tetrahydrate. The blend showed 50 % moisture permeabDity of that by LDPE. In 1958 Phillips Petroleum patented PE/PE blends, either cross-linked in electron accelerator or not (Canterino and Martinovich 1963 Nelson 1964). Mitsubishi disclosed PO blends comprising vinyl-trimethoxysUane-grafted polyolefin (PP, LDPE, EPR, or EVAc) and ethylene-acryloyloxy tetramethylpiperidine copolymer. These water-cross-linkable resins were used for the manufacture of weather-resistant cross-linked PO pipes in outdoor applications (Ohnishi and Fukuda 1993). Thermally reversible cross-links (based on ionic interaction between maleated- and glycidyl methacrylate-grafted polyolefins) were also proposed (Okada 1994 Okada and Masuyama 1994). 

Torres, N., Robin, J. J., and Boutevin, B. (2001). Functionalization of High-Density Polyethylene in the Molten State by Glycidyl Methacrylate Grafting. Journal of Applied Polymer Science 81(3), 581-590. 

I. Pesneau, M.F. Champagne, and M.A. Huneault, Glycidyl methacrylate-grafted linear low-density polyethylene fabrication and application for polyester/polyethylene bonding, /. Appl. Polym. Sci., 91 (5) 3180-3191, March 2004. 

Hoffman and his coworkers have done a lot of work on the apphcation of radiation-induced graft polymerization for medical apphcation. The hydrophilic polymers that have been used for radiation-induced grafting are Al-vinyl pyrohdone (NVP), 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA), acrylamide (AAm), acrylic acid (AAc), glycidyl methacrylate (GMA), ethyleneglycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA), and ethyl methacrylate (EMA) onto sihcone rubber were widely smdied. 

Hydroxyl groups may also be introduced in the polymer by graft-copolymerization of hydroxyethyl methacrylate or glycidyl methacrylate, the latter being subsequently hydrolyzed 91). Heparin was immobilized on such hydroxyl-containing polymers by means of glutaric dialdehyde. The maximal amount of polymer-bound heparin was 80 ng/cm2. 

Diallyloxycarbonyl) benzophenone EDMA glycidyl methacrylate-EDMA copolymer (support polymer) benzene Using covalently bonded templates surface imprinting by photo-grafting polymeriza- [105]... 

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