Preparation and characterization of tourmaline tetradecenylsuccinate-vinyl acetate copolymer

Abstract

This In this paper, the tetradecenylsuccinic anhydride was used to modify tourmaline to prepare a polymerizable organic tourmaline tetradecenylsuccinate, and then copolymerized with vinyl acetate to prepare tourmaline-containing functional copolymer. The structures and morphologies of modified tourmaline and copolymer were characterized by means of IR, SEM and EDX analyses. The experimental results showed that the tourmaline was embedded into copolymer by the process of surface modification and copolymerization and illustrated well dispersion stability in copolymer, and meanwhile the tourmaline-containing functional copolymer had benign far infrared radiation and negative ions releasing properties, and a good mechanical performance.