Precision polymer synthesis by controlled radical polymerization: Fusing the progress from polymer chemistry and reaction engineering

YN Zhou, JJ Li, TT Wang, YY Wu, ZH Luo - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
During the first 100 years of polymer science, controlled radical polymerization (also
recommended as reversible deactivation radical polymerization) is undoubtedly a …

Radical polymerization of acrylic monomers: An overview

N Ballard, JM Asua - Progress in Polymer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Since their discovery and development in the 20th century, acrylic polymers have become
an integral part of numerous industries and are used in a myriad of applications. As is true …

Gillespie-driven kinetic Monte Carlo algorithms to model events for bulk or solution (bio) chemical systems containing elemental and distributed species

AD Trigilio, YW Marien… - Industrial & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Stochastic modeling techniques have emerged as a powerful tool to study the time evolution
of processes in many research fields including (bio) chemical engineering and biology. One …

Translating simulated chain length and molar mass distributions in chain‐growth polymerization for experimental comparison and mechanistic insight

YW Marien, M Edeleva, FL Figueira… - Macromolecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The molar mass distribution (MMD), which is also known as the molecular weight distribution
(MWD), is a key molecular property for a polymerization process, as it determines polymer …

Impact of side reactions on molar mass distribution, unsaturation level and branching density in solution free radical polymerization of n-butyl acrylate under well …

M Edeleva, YW Marien, PHM Van Steenberge… - Polymer …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The radical chemistry of polyacrylate synthesis is non-trivial, due to a significant amount of
side reactions. Backbiting transforms conventional secondary end-chain radicals (ECRs) in …

Connecting gas-phase computational chemistry to condensed phase kinetic modeling: The state-of-the-art

M Edeleva, PHM Van Steenberge, MK Sabbe… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, quantum chemical calculations (QCC) have increased in accuracy, not
only providing the ranking of chemical reactivities and energy barriers (eg, for optimal …

Jacket temperature regulation allowing well-defined non-adiabatic lab-scale solution free radical polymerization of acrylates

M Edeleva, YW Marien… - Reaction Chemistry & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Conventional batch solution free radical polymerization (FRP) of n-butyl acrylate (nBuA) with
thermal initiators such as 2, 2′-azobis (2-methylpropionitrile)(AIBN) is known to be strongly …

From n-butyl acrylate Arrhenius parameters for backbiting and tertiary propagation to β-scission via stepwise pulsed laser polymerization

AB Vir, YW Marien, PHM Van Steenberge… - Polymer …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Arrhenius parameters for backbiting (bb), mid-chain radical propagation (pm) and β-scission
in n-butyl acrylate radical polymerization are determined based on pulsed laser …

Molecularly imprinted polymers with enhanced selectivity based on 4-(aminomethyl) pyridine-functionalized poly (2-oxazoline) s for detecting hazardous herbicide …

M Cegłowski, YW Marien, S Smeets… - Chemistry of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The detection of hazardous compounds is of importance to control (drinking) water quality.
Here, we report the development of poly (2-oxazoline)-based molecularly imprinted …

Kinetic Monte Carlo modeling extracts information on chain initiation and termination from complete PLP-SEC traces

YW Marien, PHM Van Steenberge… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Complete pulsed laser polymerization (PLP) log-molar mass distributions (log-MMDs) are
accurately simulated using kinetic Monte Carlo (k MC) modeling to gain not only knowledge …