This paper represents a continuation of the series concerning experimental determination of vapour–liquid equilibria (VLE) in diluted polymer + solvent systems. In the previous papers we dealt with the polymeric flow improvers + toluene, hexane, chloroform1,2, poly(acrylic acid) + water3, poly(methyl methacrylate) + acetone3, and poly(methyl methacrylate) + 2-butanone4 systems. The aim of this ...

The antibacterial properties of a polymeric phosphonium salt were studied to determine its suitability as an additive to develop an antibacterial dental resin. The phosphonium salt monomer studied was tri-n-butyl(4-vinylbenzyl)phosphonium chloride (VP), and acrylic acid (AC) and methacryloyloxyethyl trimethyl ammonium chloride (MA) were used as controls. The antibacterial activity of these mono...

The in situ ATRP (atom transfer radical polymerization) "grafting from" approach was successfully applied to graft poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) onto the convex surfaces of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNT). The thickness of the coated polymer layers can be conveniently controlled by the feed ratio of MMA to preliminarily functionalized MWNT (MWNT-Br). The resulting MWNT-based polymer brus...

Immıscible polymethyl methacrylate/polystyrene (PMMA/PS) mixtures with various maleic anhydride-styrene-methyl methacrylate (MAStMMA) compatibilizer ratio (0, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10) % were obtained by solution casting. The spectral results showed that the optical constants such as refractive index (n), extinction coefficient (k) absorption increase increasing terpolymer ratio. On other hand, energy...

Molecularly imprinted polymeric films (MIPFs) highly selective to 1R,2S(-)ephedrine (L-ephedrine, EPD) were produced by phase inversion post-polymerization imprinting on poly(acrylonitrile-co-methyl methacrylate-co-acrylic acid) (PAMA) terpolymers. The inclusion of methyl methacrylate (MMA) to the polymer formulation resulted in enhanced EPD selectivity which appears to be dictated by polymer c...