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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 46, Issue 17, Pages 6786-6793Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma401389t
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- Institut Universitaire de France
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Thiophene and polythiophene derivatives have been prepared and used as photoinitiators upon visible light exposure. Their abilities to initiate, when combined with an iodonium salt (and optionally N-vinylcarbazole), a ring-opening cationic photopolymerization of epoxides and radical photopolymerization of acrylates under various different irradiation sources (i.e., very soft halogen lamp irradiation, laser diode at 405, 457, 473, 532, and 635 nm and blue LED bulb at 462 nm) have been investigated. These systems are characterized by a remarkable performance for purple to red light exposure. They are also particularly efficient for the cationic and radical photopolymerization of an epoxide/acrylate blend in a one-step hybrid cure and lead to the formation of an interpenetrated polymer network IPN (30 s for getting tack-free coatings). Their migration stability is excellent in the cured IPNs. The photochemical mechanisms are studied by steady state photolysis, fluorescence, cyclic voltammetry, electron spin resonance spin trapping, and laser flash photolysis techniques.
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