Isothermal FP

Frontal polymerization (FP) is a polymerization process in which polymerization occurs directionally. There are three types of FP. The first is isothermal FP, which is discussed in Chapter 5. The second is photofrontal polymerization in which the front is driven by the continuous flux of radiation, usually UV light [1-7]. The last type is thermal FP, which we will henceforth refer to ns frontal polymerization, and it results from the coupling of thermal transport and the Arrhenius dependence of the reaction rate of an exothermic polymerization. 

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