Styrene-capped polybutadiene

Viscosity response curve of styrene-capped (in eight increments) polybutadiene (B BS BS),... 

The study of acid-base interaction is an important branch of interfacial science. These interactions are widely exploited in several practical applications such as adhesion and adsorption processes. Most of the current studies in this area are based on calorimetric studies or wetting measurements or peel test measurements. While these studies have been instrumental in the understanding of these interfacial interactions, to a certain extent the interpretation of the results of these studies has been largely empirical. The recent advances in the theory and experiments of contact mechanics could be potentially employed to better understand and measure the molecular level acid-base interactions. One of the following two experimental procedures could be utilized (1) Polymers with different levels of acidic and basic chemical constitution can be coated on to elastomeric caps, as described in Section 4.2.1, and the adhesion between these layers can be measured using the JKR technique and Eqs. 11 or 30 as appropriate. For example, poly(p-amino styrene) and poly(p-hydroxy carbonyl styrene) can be coated on to PDMS-ox, and be used as acidic and basic surfaces, respectively, to study the acid-base interactions. (2) Another approach is to graft acidic or basic macromers onto a weakly crosslinked polyisoprene or polybutadiene elastomeric networks, and use these elastomeric networks in the JKR studies as described in Section 4.2.1. 

Commercial ABS is prepared primarily by free-radical emulsion copolymerization of styrene and acrylonitrile in the presence of polybutadiene latex (3). This method was therefore adapted for the preparation of ABS and MBS terpolymers and an intermediate AMBS tetrapolymer under similar conditions (Table I). Polymerizations were charged into 12-ounce crown-cap bottles, sparged and flushed with nitrogen, and... 

A very popular and useful TPE is made from blocks of styrene and butadiene monomers using anionic polymerization techniques, which was described in the solution SBR section above. They are made up of short chains of polystyrene (usually 8000-15,000 MW), followed by a much longer chain of polybutadiene (about 60,000 MW), and capped off by another short chain of polystyrene, hence the name SBS. Similar polymers are prepared using isoprene instead of butadiene (SIS). The differences between SBS and SIS will be discussed later in the subsection Uses. ... 

Flydroxyl-capped poly (ethylene-co-butylene), a so-called Kraton, was converted into a macroinitiator via esterification with 2-bromopropionyl chloride, and then employed for the block copolymerizations of styrene and />acetoxystyrene (B-116 and B-117).403 A similar method is utilized for B-l 18 to B-121 where the esterification is with 2-bromoisobutyroyl bromide.341 A commercially available polybutadiene is also employed for B-122 via a similar transformation into the chloroacetyl group.404... 

VISCOSITY RESPONSE CHANGE OF POLYBUTADIENE BY TERMINATION WITH ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL OR CAPPING WITH IS0PRENE< OR STYRENE S... 

Polybutadiene molecules with capped styrene active ends had solution viscosity about the same as unterminated polybutadiene molecules with half of the molecular weight. 

When a similar active polybutadiene was coupled with R2SiCl2 the solution viscosity dropped significantly. The amount of reduction was about the same as capping the end with styrene. 

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