Jianquan Tan,Weiqu Liu,Honglei Wang,Yang Sun,Shijian Wang
A novel waterborne UV-curable comb-like (meth)acrylate graft copolymer containing long fluorinated side chains (UVWCAC) was synthesized by conventional radical copolymerization of a novel mono-methacryloyloxy terminated fluorinated macromonomer (PHFBMA-GMA) and (meth)acrylate monomers. GPC, FTIR and 1 H NMR were employed to characterize the structure of the polymers. The influence of both the molecular weight and concentration of PHFBMA-GMA on the properties of UV-cured films was investigated. Hydrophobic surface could be obtained with just small amount of PHFBMA-GMA copolymerized into the polymer. The surface energy of UV-cured films decreased as both the concentration and the molecular weight of PHFBMA-GMA increased. The surface composition of the graft copolymer was characterized by XPS. XPS results confirmed the enrichment of the fluorine atoms on the surface quantitatively. In addition, the physical properties of UVWCAC UV-cured films, such as gel content, water absorption, pencil hardness, adhesion, chemical resistance, mechanical properties, optical transmittance and thermal properties were also investigated in detail. The novel UVWCAC prepared via conventional radical polymerization not only had excellent properties but also had the prominent potential application in large scale industrialization.
Tan Jianquan,Liu Weiqu,Wang Honglei,Sun Yang,Wang Shijian
A novel acrylic comb-shaped copolymer containing long fluorinated side chains (ACCLF) was successfully synthesized by conventional radical polymerization of a novel mono-methacryloyloxy terminated fluorinated macromonomer (PHFBMA-MA), methyl methacrylate (MMA), isobutyl acrylate (IBA), and γ-methacryl propyl trimethoxyl silane (MPTS). GPC, FTIR, and 1 H-NMR data successfully verified the synthesis. The influence of both the molecular weight and concentration of PHFBMA-MA on the surface properties of ACCLF films was investigated. By increasing both the concentration and the molecular weight of PHFBMA-MA, the surface energy of the films decreased and contact angle increased. The surface energy of ACCLF-1/3-8 with just 8 wt% PHFBMA-MA-1/3 (20.68 mN/m) was almost the same as that of the neat PHFBMA (20.36 mN/m), indicating the high efficiency of the macromonomer in lowering the surface energy of the comb-shaped copolymer. The surface composition of ACCLF was characterized and quantified by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). XPS results strongly confirmed that, at the same fluorinated content, long fluorinated chains modified film (9.36 % fluorine content for ACCLF-1/3-4 and 8.19 % fluorine content for ACCLF-1/6-4) showed higher fluorine concentration at the top surface than that of ACSF-4 modified film (1.52 %). ACCLF films also had excellent adhesion [on glass, tin plate, and polycarbonate (PC)], pencil hardness, and thermal properties. The novel ACCLF prepared via conventional radical polymerization not only had excellent comprehensive performance, but also has prominent potential application in large-scale industrialization.