Definition
When two or more unsaturated monomers polymerize simultaneously under the conditions of radical chain polymerization, such process is termed “free radical addition copolymerization,” yielding a copolymer incorporating the monomer units.
Introduction
A wide variety of monomers are radically polymerizable to high molecular weight. A large number of 1-substituted ethylenes (CH2=CHX), 1,1-disubstituted ethylenes (CH2=CXY), 1,3-dienes (CH2=CX-CH=CH2 and CH2=CH-CH=CHX), and much less 1,2-disubstituted ethylenes (XCH=CHX) are known as radically copolymerizable monomers. When two or more of the monomers are submitted for polymerization using a radical initiator, the copolymerization of those monomers yields copolymers composed of the monomer units. Composition of the copolymer depends on the relative concentrations of the monomers and their reactivities. Simultaneous polymerizations of two and three monomers are...
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Yamada, B. (2014). Free Radical Addition Copolymerization. In: Kobayashi, S., Müllen, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36199-9_182-1
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