4-ChloroMethyl Styrene (CMS) was copolymerized with different monomers such as Methyl MethAcrylate (MMA), Methyl Acrylate (MA), 2-EthylHexyl Acrylate (EHA) by free radical polymerization method at 70 ±1°C using a,a'-Azobis(IsoButyroNitrile) (AIBN) as an initiator. The copolymer compositions were obtained using related 1HNMR spectra and the poly...

Distributed Multimedia Information System Laboratory School of Computer Science, Florida International University Miami, FL 33199, USA Abstract Styrene Monomer (SM) has been widely used for producing polystyrene (PS), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) and styrene-acryonitrile (SAN) in the petrochemical industry. From 1994 to 2001, several serious accidents occurred in Taiwan due to styrene ...

In order to determine the chemical composition distribution (CCD) of styrene-butadiene copolymers, gradient polymer elution chromatography has been performed. The separation is mainly based on differences in solubility among the copolymer molecules with different chemical composition. The solubility of a copolymer is dependent on the following parameters: temperature, type of solvent/non-solven...

Ionomers are generally described by copolymers having either acrylic or methacylic acid as one component and the other component is mostly either ethylene or styrene. The objective of this research was to study the thermal behaviour and stability of ionomers of styrene with some alkali metal acrylates. These materials have been synthesized by neutralization of the respective copoly...

One-step facile synthesis of monoporous polymer microspheres via microwave-controlled dispersion polymerization is introduced. This template-free method employing the dispersion polymerization of styrene under microwave irradiation induces directly the formation of uniform monoporous polymer microspheres, with controllable morphologies and sizes, which can be tuned by simply adjusting parameter...

Chain-growth polymerizations are popular methods because they allow synthesis of highmolecular weight polymers in high yields and in short times. However, copolymers prepared by such processes generally exhibit uncontrolled monomer sequences. The controlled radical copolymerization of styrene with N-substituted maleimides is an interesting exception allowing preparation of controlled primary st...

The Mayo and Flory mechanisms for the self-initiation of styrene polymerization were explored with B3LYP and BPW91 density functional calculations. The Diels-Alder dimer (AH) is the key intermediate, and the lowest energy pathway for AH formation is a stepwise mechanism via a gauche/sickle (*M2*Gs) or gauche/U-shaped (*M2*Gu) diradical. Ring closure of the 1,4-diradical to diphenylcyclobutane (...