Enhanced Heat Resistance and Adhesive Strength of Styrene-Acrylic Triblock Copolymer Elastomers by Incorporating Acrylic Acid.

ABSTRACT: Herein, we present an industrially applicable strategy to enhance the heat resistance and adhesive properties of ABA triblock copolymer-based elastomers composed of styrene (St) and n-butyl acrylate (nBA) by incorporating acrylic acid (AA) at different segments. Three types of triblock copolymers, namely, poly(St-r-AA)-b-poly(nBA)-b-poly(St-r-AA), poly(St)-b-poly(nBA-r-AA)-b-poly(St), and poly(St)-b-poly(nBA)-b-poly(St), were synthesized by reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) polymerization. Large-scale RAFT polymerization afforded industrially applicable AA-containing triblock copolymers with moderate molecular weights and predetermined comonomer compositions (St/nBA/AA = 15/83/2-24/73/3, number-average molecular weight (M n) = 30,000-110,000, and resulting product > 2

SUBMITTER: Mogami H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7045544 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature