Abstract
Photografting copolymerization of maleic anhydride (MAH) and styrene (St) onto LDPE film was investigated by using a one-step method, and further thermally induced grafting copolymerization of them was carried out by using a two-step method. Regarding the photografting copolymerization of MAH/St binary monomer system, both conversion percentage (CP) and grafting efficiency (GE) increased with raising the content of MAH in the monomer feed. In addition, the content of MAH in the grafted copolymers also increased with increasing the fraction of MAH in the monomer feed. The formation of LDPE- g-P(MAH- co-St) grafted film was identified by FTIR and ESCA spectroscopy. In the case of grafting copolymerization of MAH/St by the two-step method, grafting copolymerization proceeded slowly compared with the non-grafting copolymerization. The apparent activation energy ( E a) for the non-grafting copolymerization in the solution and the grafting copolymerization on LDPE film was 24 and 82 kJ/mol, respectively, which were noticeably lower than those of MAH/vinyl acetate (MAH/VAC) binary monomer system under the similar grafting conditions. These data of E a explained why the grafting copolymerization of styrene/MAH took place faster than that of MAH/VAC binary monomer system. The composition of the grafted copolymer chains was largely affected by the composition of the monomer feeds; however, the composition of the non-grafted copolymers nearly remained at 1/1 even in systems with largely different MAH/styrene ratios in monomer feeds. It is indicated that the non-grafting copolymerization proceeded predominantly following alternating copolymerization, but the grafting copolymerization performed random copolymerization.
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