Abstract
The impact of the synthesis conditions on the formation of the monomer sequences of styrene (S) and methyl methacrylate (MMA) gradient copolymers synthesized by forced gradient copolymerization with nitroxide-mediated controlled radical polymerization (NM-CRP) was investigated using kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) simulations. The factors affecting the formation of the individual segments, arrangement of these segments along the chain, and the uniformity of monomer sequences were investigated. It was shown that instantaneous segment lengths increase exponentially as a function of monomer composition. The concentration of nitroxyl radicals also plays a key role in the formation of segment lengths. In addition, the arrangement of the segments mainly depends on the feed profile of the second monomer. A constant feed profile, which is widely used in current syntheses of gradient copolymers, is shown to not be suitable to make a structural gradient along the chain. It was also demonstrated that the uniformity of seq...
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