Abstract
AbstractIn order to elucidate the mechanism of radiation‐induced polymerization of methyl methacrylate adsorbed on silica gel, the effects of p‐benzoquinone addition and dose rate were studied in detail. Most of the polymerization is inhibited by p‐benzoquinone at levels above 10‐2 mole/l. The GPC spectra of both graft polymers and homopolymers show two peaks. The high molecular weight material appears to have been formed by polymerization by a radical mechanism, because these peaks decrease as p‐benzoquinone concentration increases; on the other hand, their low molecular weight polymers seem to be products of an ionic polymerization mechanism because those peaks are almost not affected by p‐benzoquinone. The four GPC peaks differ in dose rate dependences of their polymerization rate. The dose‐rate exponents of polymerization rate were obtained for the four GPC peaks. The behavior of the low molecular weight peaks of graft polymers and homopolymers were quite different, suggesting that the polymers differ considerably in formation mechanism.
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