Poly methoxyethyl acrylate

An elastomer based on polyethylacrylate and/or poly-n-butylacrylate with thermal stability up to T = 200 °C, usually cross-linked by heating with peroxides or with alkali. To improve the solvent resistance, 20-50 wt% of ethoxy or methoxyethyl-acrylate may be added. 

Novel transparent, soft P-NCs with high contents of inorganic clay were developed by extending the concept of NC gels and their synthesis to the field of solid P-NCs [31, 32]. These novel P-NCs (abbreviated as M-NCs), which consist of hydrophobic poly(2-methoxyethyl acrylate) (PMEA) (Scheme 1) and hydrophilic inorganic clay (hectorite), have superior optical and mechanical properties, despite... 

Poly(A, A -dimethylacrylamide-co-2-methoxyethyl acrylate) water 1996ELE... 

Recently, the interest on adhesive fibrillar surfaces has turned to include adhesion against soft substrates or under wet environments. This is achieved by coating the micropatterned substrates with wet adhesives (Figure 15.9) [43—45] or viscous oils [46]. Patterned PDMS [44] or PUR [45] surfaces were coated with poly(dopamine methacrylate-co-2-methoxyethyl acrylate), a copolymer containing high amounts of cathecol, and a key component of wet adhesive proteins fotmd in mussels. Such... 

Haraguchi, K., Masatoshi, S., Kotobuki, N., Murata, K., 2011a. Thermoresponsible cell adhe-sion/detachment on transparent nanocomposite films consisting of poly(2-methoxyethyl acrylate) and clay. Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer Edition 22, 2389—2406. 

Polymers of the lower n-alkyl acrylates have found some commercial use. The lowest member of the series, poly(methyl acrylate) has poor low temperature properties and is water-sensitive and its use is therefore restricted to such applications as textile sizes and leather finishes. Ethyl acrylate and butyl acrylate are the most commonly used major components of commercial acrylate rubbers. At the present time, most commercial acrylate rubbers are copolymers of either ethyl or butyl acrylate with an alkoxy acrylate such as methoxyethyl acrylate (VIII) and ethoxyethyl acrylate (IX). The presence of a proportion of longer side-chains gives a rubber with improved low temperature flexibility. 

Hritcu et al. [149] synthesized first cationic PS latexes covered with a shell-containing poly(styrene-co-2-hydroxyethyl acrylate) by a seed copolymerization procedure using an azo initiator. In the second step, grafted chains anchored to the surface were produced by polymerization of fV-(2-methoxyethyl) acrylamide (MEA), in the presence of Ce(lV) as a redox initiator. However, the percentage of MEA found covalently attached to the surface was very low because bulk MEA polymerization forming soluble polymers occurred to a much greater extent than the actual grafting reaction on the particles. 

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