Article: Grafting of Poly(vinyl chloride) and Polypropylene With Styrene in a Supercritical [CO.sub.2] Solvent Medium: Synthesis and Characterization.

Akshay H. Trivedi (1)

Soonjong Kwak (2)

Sunggyu Lee (*)

INTRODUCTION

Graft copolymerization is commonly used for chemical modification of polymers to impart different properties to the main polymer backbone. Graft copolymers also play an important role as compatibilizers in enhancing polymer blend properties and are the key materials for development of multicomponent systems. Until recently, graft copolymers have been studied for modification of surface properties of fibers. plastics, and elastomers. However, only since the recent discovery of macromonomers (very large molecular weight polymer with a polymerizable group at the chain ...

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