Polypropylene surface modification by entrapment functionalization Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A new approach to prepare surface-functionalized polypropylene using block cooligomers of propylene and acrylate esters is described. Using boron-promoted radical polymerization and a vinyl-terminated polypropylene oligomer, block cooligomers of propylene and tert-butyl acrylate were prepared. Codissolution of such cooligomers with excess isotactic polypropylene and film casting produced functionalized films. Acidolysis of the tert-butyl esters at the surface of these films produced a poly-(acrylic acid)-grafted polypropylene film that could be further modified chemically. Incorporation of pH-sensitive dyes into this poly(acrylic acid) surface in turn produced films whose reactivity in proton-transfer chemistry in various solvent suspensions was studied as a function of solvent.

published proceedings

  • MACROMOLECULES

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Bergbreiter, D. E., Walchuk, B., Holtzman, B., & Gray, H. N.

citation count

  • 36

complete list of authors

  • Bergbreiter, DE||Walchuk, B||Holtzman, B||Gray, HN

publication date

  • June 1998