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Fig. XV-1. Plots of t/CRT vs. C for a fractionated poly(methyl acrylate) polymer at the indicated temperatures in degrees Celsius. [From A. Takahashi, A. Yoshida, and M. Kawaguchi, Macromolecules, 15, 1196 (1982) (Ref. 1). Copyright 1982, American Chemical Society.]...

Mixtures of polymers at surfaces provide the interesting possibility of exploring polymer miscibility in two dimensions. Baglioni and co-workers [17] have shown that polymers having the same orientation at the interface are compatible while those having different orientations are not. Some polymers have their hydrophobic portions parallel to the surface, while others have a perpendicular disposition. The surface orientation effect is also present in mixtures of poly(methyl methacrylate), PMMA, and fatty acids. 

Figure Bl.19.30. Height and friction images of a spin-cast polystyrene-poly(methyl methacrylate) blend obtained with (a) gold and (b) silica probes under perfluorodecalin. Note the reversal of frictional contrast and the high spatial resolution. (Taken from [142], figure 7.)...

Lenk T J, Hallmark V M, Rabolt J F, Haussling L and Ringsdorf H 1993 Formation and characterization of self-assembled films of sulphur-derivatized poly(methyl methacrylates) on gold Macromolecules 26 1230-7... 

Anti L, Goodwin J W, Flill R D, Ottewill R FI, Owens S M, Papworth S and Waters J A 1986 The preparation of poly (methyl methaorylate) lattioes in non-aqueous media Colloid Surf. 17 67-78... 

Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) Ethylene-chlorotrifluoroethylene copolymer... 

Polylmethyl Methacrylate). The monomer used for poly(methyl methacrylate), 2-hy-droxy-2-methylpropanenitrile, is prepared by the following reaction ... 

Hydroxy-2-methylpropanenitrile is then reacted with methanol (or other alcohol) to yield methacrylate ester. Free-radical polymerization is initiated by peroxide or azo catalysts and produce poly(methyl methacrylate) resins having the following formula ... 

Poly (methyl Acrylate). The monomer used for preparing poly(methyl acrylate) is produced by the oxidation of propylene. The resin is made by free-radical polymerization initiated by peroxide or azo catalysts and has the following formula ... 

Poly(methyl methacrylate) Cast sheet Impact- modified Heat- resistant ... 

Properties Poly(methyl pentene), unfilled Polyolefin ... 

Poly(methyl Ultra high- Glass-fiber- Ethylene-... 

At 25°C, the Mark-Houwink exponent for poly(methyl methacrylate) has the value 0.69 in acetone and 0.83 in chloroform. Calculate (retaining more significant figures than strictly warranted) the value of that would be obtained for a sample with the following molecular weight distribution if the sample were studied by viscometry in each of these solvents ... 

Figure 3.16 Some experimental dynamic components, (a) Storage and loss compliance of crystalline polytetrafluoroethylene measured at different frequencies. [Data from E. R. Fitzgerald, J. Chem. Phys. 27 1 180 (1957).] (b) Storage modulus and loss tangent of poly(methyl acrylate) and poly(methyl methacrylate) measured at different temperatures. (Reprinted with permission from J. Heijboer in D. J. Meier (Ed.), Molecular Basis of Transitions and Relaxations, Gordon and Breach, New York, 1978.)...

With T as the independent variable, the transition between glassy and rubbery behavior can be read directly at Tg. Note that Tg is about 100° lower for poly(methyl acrylate) than for poly(methyl methacrylate). 

Williams and Ferryf measured the dynamic compliance of poly(methyl acrylate) at a number of temperatures. Curves measured at various temperatures were shifted to construct a master curve at 25°C, and the following shift factors were obtained ... 

Combination and disproportionation are competitive processes and do not occur to the same extent for all polymers. For example, at 60°C termination is virtually 100% by combination for polyacrylonitrile and 100% by disproportionation for poly (vinyl acetate). For polystyrene and poly (methyl methacrylate), both reactions contribute to termination, although each in different proportions. Each of the rate constants for termination individually follows the Arrhenius equation, so the relative amounts of termination by the two modes is given by... 

It is not the purpose of this book to discuss in detail the contributions of NMR spectroscopy to the determination of molecular structure. This is a specialized field in itself and a great deal has been written on the subject. In this section we shall consider only the application of NMR to the elucidation of stereoregularity in polymers. Numerous other applications of this powerful technique have also been made in polymer chemistry, including the study of positional and geometrical isomerism (Sec. 1.6), copolymers (Sec. 7.7), and helix-coil transitions (Sec. 1.11). We shall also make no attempt to compare the NMR spectra of various different polymers instead, we shall examine only the NMR spectra of different poly (methyl methacrylate) preparations to illustrate the capabilities of the method, using the first system that was investigated by this technique as the example. 

Figure 7.10 shows the 60-MHz spectra of poly (methyl methacrylate) prepared with different catalysts so that predominately isotactic, syndiotactic, and atactic products are formed. The three spectra in Fig. 7.10 are identified in terms of this predominant character. It is apparent that the spectra are quite different, especially in the range of 5 values between about 1 and 2 ppm. Since the atactic polymer has the least regular structure, we concentrate on the other two to make the assignment of the spectral features to the various protons. 

The hydrogens of the methylene group in the backbone of the poly (methyl methacrylate) produce a single peak in a racemic dyad, as illustrated by structure [XVI]. 

Figure 7.10 Nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of three poly(methyl methacrylate samples. Curves are labeled according to the preominant tacticity of samples. [From D. W. McCall and W. P. Slichter, in Newer Methods of Polymer Characterization, B. Ke (Ed.), Interscience, New York, 1964, used with permission.]...

Figure 7.11 Methylene proton portion of the 220-MHz NMR spectrum of poly(methyl methacrylate) (a) predominately syndiotactic and (b) predominately isotactic. [From F. A. Bovey, High Resolution NMR of Macro molecules, Academic, New York, 1972, used with permission.]...

Figure 9.17 Plot of log [i ]M versus retention volume for various polymers, showing how different systems are represented by a single calibration curve when data are represented in this manner. The polymers used include linear and branched polystyrene, poly(methyl methacrylate), poly(vinyl chloride), poly(phenyl siloxane), polybutadiene, and branched, block, and graft copolymers of styrene and methyl methacrylate. [From Z. Grubisec, P. Rempp, and H. Benoit, Polym. Lett. 5 753 (1967), used with permission of Wiley.]...

The sedimentation and diffusion coefficients for three different preparations of poly(methyl methacrylate) were measuredf in /i-butyl chloride at 35.6 C (= 0) and in acetone at 20 C (> 0) and the following results were obtained ... 

Bhatnagar and Biswast measured the turbidity at 436 nm of 2l single sample of poly(methyl methacrylate) in several solvents, including acetone and methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) ... 

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