Thermal degradation kinetics of thermoresponsive poly(N- isopropylacrylamide-co-N,N-dimethylacrylamide) copolymers prepared via RAFT polymerization

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 753-761

  Bauri, Kamal ^a   Roy, Saswati Ghosh ^a   Arora, Simran ^a   Dey, Rajib Kumar ^a   Goswami, Ankur ^b   Madras, Giridhar ^b   De, Priyadarsi ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Activation energy of degradation; Copolymerization; Lower critical solution temperature; Reactivity ratio

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER CHAINS; COPOLYMER COMPOSITIONS; DIMETHYL ACRYLAMIDE; END STRUCTURE; FREQUENCY FACTORS; H NMR SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH CONVERSIONS; KINETIC MODELS; LOWER CRITICAL SOLUTION TEMPERATURE; MISCIBLE POLYMER BLENDS; N ,N-DIMETHYLACRYLAMIDE; N ,N-DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; N-ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDES; NARROW MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS; POLYMER DEGRADATION; RAFT POLYMERIZATION; REACTIVITY RATIO; REVERSIBLE ADDITION-FRAGMENTATION CHAIN TRANSFER POLYMERIZATION; S-METHOD; THERMAL DEGRADATION KINETICS; THERMO-RESPONSIVE;

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; ACTIVATION ENERGY; COPOLYMERIZATION; DEGRADATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; HYDROGEN BONDS; KINETICS; LIVING POLYMERIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

COPOLYMERS;

EID: 84871681107     PISSN: 13886150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10973-012-2344-0     Document Type: Article

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