Citation: . POLYMER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PAST AND THE FUTURE:HEROISM,EXPLORATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, ;2000, 18(3): 189-193. shu

POLYMER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE PAST AND THE FUTURE:HEROISM,EXPLORATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT

Received Date: 8 December 1999

The scientific and technical history of polymerization can be divided into three periods, which will be illustratedfor emulsion polymerization. The first period was when emulsion polymers were originally produced, and was developed asan attempt to copy natural rubber latex. Indeed, the natural process is quite different from the synthetic process of emulsionpolymerization, which in fact does not even need an emulsion to be present: the term is a misnomer! The results were functional but limited.In the second period,the first theories appeared,and a huge range of products was made for surface coatings,adhesives,commodity polymers such as SBR,neoprene,etc.The work of the outstanding pioneers was based on limited types of experimental data,and some suppositions are now seen to be incorrect.Nevertheless,many excellent products were made and have evolved to many materials currently in everyday use.The third period of emulsion polymerization is now dawning.The scientific efforts of many teams over previous decades,aided by the advent of new physical techniques for investigation,have resulted in better understanding of the fundamentals of emulsion polymerizations.Some examples from the author's group involve creating novel materials using controlled seeded emulsion polymerization from natural rubber latex and other polyenes.Latex topology and controlled free-radical chemistry can be combined to produce a )a comb polymer with hydrophobic backbone and hydrophilic "teeth",or b )with sufficient in situ compatibilizer between two otherwise incompatible polymers to yield a spatially uniform material down to the nanostructure level,and c)to produce controlled nanostructures.
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