Simple and Rapid Adhesion of Commodity Polymer Substrates under Ambient Conditions Using Complexed Alkylboranes.

ABSTRACT: Adhesives are ubiquitous in manufacturing spanning nearly all sectors from healthcare and photovoltaics to aerospace and electronics. Yet many commercial polymers remain challenging to adhere, necessitating either pretreatment, mechanical fastening, or adhesive processes that involve specialized equipment, high temperature/vacuum, and long cure times. Thus, rapid-cure adhesives for polymers that can set under ambient conditions using simple procedures are desirous because they offer cost savings, faster production, and greater design freedom to producers. Herein, we report a powerful adhesive platform that bonds a wide scope of commodity polymers via (hydrogen) atom transfer and free-radical (graft) polymerization initiated with a trialkylborane-ligand complex and isocyanate decomplexing a

SUBMITTER: Wilson OR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9387130 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature