Experimental and Theoretical Study on Bulk Suspension Polymerization in the Presence of Styrene-b-Butadiene Diblock Copolymer

CARLA LUCIANI; RAMÓN DÍAZ DE LEÓN; GRACIELA MORALES; DIANA ESTENOZ; GREGORIO MEIRA

Los Cocos (Argentina)

Simposio; III Simposio Binacional Argentino-Chileno - ARCHIPOL 2005; 2005

Numerous mathematical models have been developed that describe the HIPS process and they are capable of predicting the molecular structure of the reacting mixture in one or two phases. In a previous work, we presented a model that predicts the HIPS morphology produced in a bulk polymerization of St in the presence of PB. In this work, such a model is extended to simulate a bulk-suspension process when a St-Bd block copolymer is used as base rubber. The model was adjusted and validated with experimental data from polymerizations carried out in our laboratory.