All-acrylic superelastomers: facile synthesis and exceptional mechanical behavior

Lu, Wei; Goodwin, Andrew; Wang, Yangyang; Yin, Panchao; Wang, Weiyu; Zhu, Jiahua; Wu, Ting; Lu, Xinyi; Hu, Bin; Hong, Kunlun; Kang, Nam -Goo; Mays, Jimmy

doi:10.1039/C7PY01518F

All-acrylic superelastomers: facile synthesis and exceptional mechanical behavior

Journal Article · Tue Oct 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Polymer Chemistry

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/C7PY01518F· OSTI ID:1479807

^[1]; Goodwin, Andrew ^[1]; ^[2]; ^[2]; ^[2]; Zhu, Jiahua ^[2]; Wu, Ting ^[1]; Lu, Xinyi ^[1]; ^[1]; ^[2]; ^[1]; Mays, Jimmy ^[1]

Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

All-acrylic multigraft copolymers, poly(butyl acrylate)-g-poly(methyl methacrylate), synthesized using a facile grafting-through methodology, exhibit elongation at break (>1700%) and strain recovery behavior far exceeding those of any commercial acrylic (~500%) and styrenic (~1000%) triblock copolymers to date. One-batch anionic polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) using the sec-butyl lithium/N-isopropyl-4-vinylbenzylamine (sec-BuLi/PVBA) initiation system gives PMMA macromonomers with quantitative yield, short reaction time, and using simple synthetic procedures. Furthermore, these new all-acrylic superelastomers and the simple synthetic approach greatly expand the range of potential applications of all-acrylic thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs).

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1479807

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1418062

Journal Information:: Polymer Chemistry, Journal Name: Polymer Chemistry Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 9; ISSN PCOHC2; ISSN 1759-9954

Publisher:: Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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