Abstract
The copolymers consisting of acrylic and methacrylic esters have achieved prime importance due to their versatile environment friendly applications. Copolymerization of Methyl methacrylate (MMA) with suitable vinyl monomers such as alkyl acrylate and methacrylate has been carried out for modifying the properties of the polymer. In current research synthesis of waterborne copolymer of MMA and 2- Ethyl hexyl acrylate (2-EHA) carried out by ecofriendly emulsion polymerization technique and the kinetics of polymerization, characterizations of the copolymers have been studied. Synthesized copolymers were characterized by FTIR, NMR, DSC, and TGA. The kinetics results of the MMA-co-EHA copolymer was compared with the previously synthesized copolymer MMA with Butyl acrylate (BA). On comparing these results, it was found that EHA gives higher conversion with respect to BA under the same reaction conditions. Out of all the prepared latexes some are suitable for binder purposes in environment friendly water borne coating applications.
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