Limits of the Electropolymerization in situ

The data of the works by Subramanian et al. underlined above, emphame 

As a matter of fact, with the exception of the acrylamide/Ayv -methylenebis-acrylamide/ZnCla polymerization, which may be considered a sui generis system, it has been seen that  

The limits depaid mainly on the following factors the first one is the low efficiency of the electrodic geieration of free radical initiators. 

As a matter of fact it has to be noted that one of the most fiivorable examples seen above, that is diacetone acrylamide polymerization onto Zn sheet cathodes, required the passage of 1 Faraday for obtaining 300 g of polymer coating on the basis of the reported in Table 3, this yield corresponds to a current efficiency of ss 20% only. 

When the initiation takes place through proton discharge the situation is still more unfrivorable so on comparing the best current yields with the weight of the products for metlyl vinyl ketcme, it is found that a polymer molecule is produced by one fruitful electron transfer in more than fifty. 

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