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Pulsed Laser Polymerization: History
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Subjects: Polymer Science
Contributor: Helena Kang

Pulsed laser polymerization (PLP) is a radical polymerization initiated by short, periodic laser pulses that generate a burst of radicals at well-defined times, thereby imprinting a characteristic molecular-weight pattern from which propagation rate coefficients can be extracted [1][2]. In advanced polymer synthesis and characterization the concept is bounded by the pulsed photonic initiation and by the use of that pulse train as a kinetic clock, rather than solely as a preparative light source. Essential features are a photoinitiator that decomposes within the pulse, a dark interval during which chains propagate, and a subsequent pulse that terminates a fraction of those chains by newly generated radicals, producing an inflection in the molecular-weight distribution at a chain length equal to the product of the propagation rate coefficient, the monomer concentration, and the pulse period. High-frequency (kilohertz) PLP resolves concurrent secondary and tertiary radical propagation and backbiting in acrylate systems [2]. Two-photon PLP extends the same timing logic to near-infrared excitation [1]. The method is distinguished from continuous photopolymerization by the discrete temporal structure of initiation and from pulsed-laser deposition by the fact that the product is a dissolved or bulk polymer rather than a thin film.

  • pulsed laser polymerization
  • propagation rate coefficient
  • photoinitiation
  • molecular-weight distribution
Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization • Organic Chemistry • Chemistry • Physical Sciences
 

References

  1. Philipp Neidinger; Dominik Voll; Sarah L. Walden; Andreas-Neil Unterreiner; Christopher Barner-Kowollik; Two Photon Induced Pulsed Laser Polymerization with Near Infrared Light. ACS Macro Lett. 2023, 12, 308-313, 10.1021/acsmacrolett.3c00063.
  2. Benjamin Wenn; Tanja Junkers; Kilohertz Pulsed‐Laser‐Polymerization: Simultaneous Determination of Backbiting, Secondary, and Tertiary Radical Propagation Rate Coefficients for tert‐Butyl Acrylate. Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2016, 37, 781-787, 10.1002/marc.201600011.
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