Synthesis and Thermal Characterization of Polymethyl Methacrylate

Surender Kumar¹, Vinod Kumar²* and Subhash Malik²

¹Department of Chemistry, Digambar Jain College Baraut, Baghapat, India.

²Department of Chemistry, G.B.Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Udham Singh Nagar Uttaranchal - 263 145 India.

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ABSTRACT:

PMMA with molecular mass (PMMA Mw: 1.2×105 ) was synthesized through AIBN initiated free radical polymerization methyl methacrylate at 100 ± 1°C.The synthesized polymer was characterized through GPC coupled with RI detector in presence of THF as mobile phase at 1.0 mL/ min and simultaneous TG-DTA-DTG in nitrogen. TG data were used to investigate the non-isothermal kinetics of solid-state decomposition of PMMA according to the method of Sestak, Berggren and Satava and thermodynamics through Horowitz-Metzger and coats-Redfern methods. Key words: Polymethyl methacrylate, polymerization.

KEYWORDS:

Polymethyl methacrylate; polymerization