The Competition of Termination and Shielding to Evaluate the Success of Surface-Initiated Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization.

ABSTRACT: One of the challenges for brush synthesis for advanced bioinspired applications using surface-initiated reversible deactivation radical polymerization (SI-RDRP) is the understanding of the relevance of confinement on the reaction probabilities and specifically the role of termination reactions. The present work puts forward a new matrix-based kinetic Monte Carlo platform with an implicit reaction scheme capable of evaluating the growth pattern of individual free and tethered chains in three-dimensional format during SI-RDRP. For illustration purposes, emphasis is on normal SI-atom transfer radical polymerization, introducing concepts such as the apparent livingness and the molecular height distribution (MHD). The former is determined based on the combination of the disturbing impact of ter

SUBMITTER: Arraez FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7361790 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature