Graft copolymers grafting through

D-funclionali/alion 53 1 6,538 9 graft copolymer synthesis 558-63 grafting from 560 3 grafting through 558-60... 

The chief application of macromonomers is, however, to provide easy access to graft copolymers 69,70,71,84,851 by free radical copolymerization with a vinylic or acrylic comonomer. This grafting through process offers graft length control and provides randomness of graft distribution. 

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In the grafting through method, preformed macromonomers are copolymerized with another monomer in order to produce the graft copolymer. Macromono-... 

Table 13. Graft copolymers prepared using grafting through and CRP methods...

Grafting through is a common way of preparing synthetic graft copolymers through polymerization of macromonomers, where the mode of initiation is simply of... 

Synthesis of graft copolymers resembles that of block copolymers with an increased number of reactive sites per macromolecule. There are two techniques similar to those used in block copolymer preparation, namely grafting from and grafting onto preformed chains. Another method, grafting through, is similar to that used in conventional random copolymerization, where in-chain units function as comonomers. 

An alternate route to graft copolymers is by synthesis of macromolecules possessing exactly one polymerizable group in the chain and their subsequent polymerization, i.e. grafting through. Such reactive polymers are macromolecular monomers, i.e. Macromers as abbreviated by Milkovitch 159), who was the first to call the attention of the scientific community to the importance of this field although macromonomers have been prepared and copolymerized as early as 1962 160). 

X. Ran, M. Mu, B. Hu, R Yao, and M. Jiang, MicelUzation of easein-graft-dextran copolymer prepared through Maillard reaction, Biopolymers, 81 (2006) 29-38. 

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