The role of insaturations in the gamma irradiation of crosslinkable polymers

Nowadays, the understanding of the interaction of ionizing radiations with polymeric materials is becoming increasingly important. It is well known that many parameters regarding the synthesis of the polymers noticeably affect the irradiation process. In this work, an analysis of the effect of the t...

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Autores: Satti, Angel Jose, Ciolino, Andrés Eduardo, Andreucetti, Noemi Amalia, Valles, Enrique Marcelo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/17921
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/17921
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Gamma Radiation
Crosslinking
Insaturations
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Sumario:Nowadays, the understanding of the interaction of ionizing radiations with polymeric materials is becoming increasingly important. It is well known that many parameters regarding the synthesis of the polymers noticeably affect the irradiation process. In this work, an analysis of the effect of the type and the position of unsaturations in the molecular structure of crosslinkable polymers is performed. For such purpose, two solid semycristalline metallocenic ethylene 1-olefin copolymers (mEOC) which contain a low concentration of unsaturations from the synthesis, and their hydrogenated samples, were irradiated along with liquid poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) homo and copolymers containing different location and concentration of vinyl groups, which were structurally tailored through anionic synthesis. The source of irradiation was 60Co, under vacuum at room temperature, in all the cases. The results indicated that terminal vinyls drastically accelerate the crosslinking to lower doses, even at much lower concentrations than other type and location of unsaturations for both, mEOC and PDMS, type of polymers.