Abstract

Saurabh , Sushant Upadhyaya, Rajeev Kr. Dohare, Madhu Agarwal and Alok Gupta

Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA) is a versatile transparent thermoplastic polymer. It has fairly good impact resistant and excellent biocompatibility; therefore PMMA used commercially where high pressure tolerance and good transparencies both are required simultaneously. In this study kinetics of polymerization process was investigated by analysis of degree of conversion, rate of polymerization with respect to time. In this report it has confirmed that use of 2.5 gm. Potassium Persulphate (KPS) as initiator give fairly good conversion and satisfactory rate of polymerization.

Emulsion polymerization; PMMA; Surfactant; Initiator; Emulsifier; Critical Micelles Concentration (CMC)

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