In order to improve the performance of allyl starch-g-poly(acrylic acid-co-acrylate) sizes, effect of molecular structure of the acrylate monomers grafted onto allyl starch has been studied. A series of acrylates including methyl acrylate (MA), ethyl acrylate (EA), butyl acrylate (BA) and 2-ethylhexyl acrylate (EHA) have been grafted onto allyl starch with the same degree of substitution throug...

A series of ABA triblock copolymers, consisting of double-bond-containing poly(phenoxyallene) (PPOA), poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), or poly(butyl acrylate) (PBA) segments, were synthesized by sequential free radical polymerization and atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). A new bifunctional initiator bearing azo and halogen-containing ATRP initiating groups was first prepared followe...

Fabrication process of multimode 1 x 2 optical rectangular planar power splitter suitable for low-cost short distance optical network is presented. The splitters were designed by beam propagation method for standard input/output plastic optical fibre. Materials used for the splitter were: UV acrylate photopolymer polymer or epoxy resin for optical core waveguide layers and Y-groove substrate fo...

In this contribution, we report on the self assembly in water of original amphiphilic poly(2-methyl-2oxazoline)-b-poly(tert-butyl acrylate) copolymers, synthesized by copper catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction. For such purpose, polyoxazoline (poly(2-methyl-2-oxazoline)) and polyacrylate (poly(tert-butyl acrylate)) are first prepared by cationic ring-opening polymerization (CR...