Abstract
Photopolymerisation of 2-Hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) through the use of N,N-Diethyldithiocarbamato-(1,2)-propanediol (DCPD) was studied. The photoinitiator DCPD was synthesized from sodium N,N-Diethyldithiocarbamate (NaSR) and 3-chloro-1,2-propanediol. For the photochemical decomposition of the C – S bond, UV light at 254 nm is used. The role of the monomer concentration, reaction time and DCPD to HEMA mol ratio on the conversion of HEMA to PHEMA were studied in this paper. It was found that percentage conversion of HEMA increased both with the rise in concentration of monomer and reaction time. Further, living radical nature of the poly2-Hydroxyethyl methacrylate (PHEMA) was ascertained by the photo block copolymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) with PHEMA to form PHEMA-b-PMMA. The PHEMA and PHEMA-b-PMMA were characterized by FTIR, 1H-NMR, Thermogravimetry.
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