Graft Copolymerization : On the Structure of the Graft Phase and the Mechanism of Grafting Polybutadiene Rubber

1 July 1965

journal article
Published by Rubber Division, ACS in Rubber Chemistry and Technology

Vol. 38 (3) , 655-656
https://doi.org/10.5254/1.3535684

Abstract

Polybutadiene rubber undergoes grafting by direct interaction with initiator radicals rather than by transfer with growing radical chains. The insolubility of the grafted rubber is probably caused by crosslinking, which competes with grafting.

Keywords

STRUCTURE
COPOLYMERIZATION
GRAFTING
RUBBER
CROSSLINKING
POLYBUTADIENE
INSOLUBILITY
INITIATOR RADICALS
UNDERGOES

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