Abstract
A novel one-component type II polymeric photoinitiator, poly(vinyl alcohol)-thioxanthone (PVA-TX), is synthesized by a simple acetalization process and characterized. PVA-TX enables photopolymerization of methyl methacrylate and acrylamide in both organic and aqueous media. Photopolymerization proceeds even in the absence of a co-initiator since PVA-TX possesses both chromophoric and hydrogen donating sites in the structure.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 923-928 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Macromolecular Rapid Communications |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 May 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Keywords
- Hydrogen abstraction
- Photoinitiators
- Poly(vinyl alcohol)
- Polymerization
- Thioxanthone