Addition of water to an alcoholic RAFT PISA formulation leads to faster kinetics but limits the evolution of copolymer morphology

E. R. Jones, M. Semsarilar, P. Wyman, M. Boerakker, S. P. Armes
2016 Polymer Chemistry  
Addition of water leads to a much faster rate for the RAFT dispersion polymerization of benzyl methacrylate in ethanol, enabling degrees of polymerization of up to 1500 to be achieved.
doi:10.1039/c5py01795e fatcat:qjkpe4tu7fhmvc6n7ykvkw5qeu