Volume 115, Issue 6 pp. 3369-3375

Two-stage grafting onto polyethylene fiber by radiation-induced graft polymerization and atom transfer radical polymerization

Makoto Komatsu

Makoto Komatsu

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan

Ebara Corporation, 11-1 Haneda Asahi-cho, Ohta-ku, Tokyo 144-8510, Japan

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Takashi Kawakami

Takashi Kawakami

Ebara Corporation, 11-1 Haneda Asahi-cho, Ohta-ku, Tokyo 144-8510, Japan

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Jun-Ichi Kanno

Jun-Ichi Kanno

Ebara Corporation, 11-1 Haneda Asahi-cho, Ohta-ku, Tokyo 144-8510, Japan

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Takeo Sasaki

Corresponding Author

Takeo Sasaki

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan

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First published: 04 November 2009
Citations: 5

Abstract

Two-stage graft polymerization onto polyethylene (PE) fiber was demonstrated. The graft side chain was formed by radiation-induced graft polymerization. A PE fiber was irradiated with an electron beam and immersed in a vinyl monomer solution. The terminal of the formed graft chain was halogenated using N-bromosuccinimide. The halogenated graft chain was then extended by atom transfer radical polymerization to obtain block-copolymer grafted PE fibers. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2010

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