Graphene Oxide as a Radical Initiator: Free Radical and Controlled Radical Polymerization of Sodium 4-Vinylbenzenesulfonate with Graphene Oxide

Dmitry Voylov; Tomonori Saito; Bradley Lokitz; David Uhrig; Yangyang Wang; Alexander Agapov; Adam Holt; Vera Bocharova; Alexander Kisliuk; Alexei P. Sokolov

doi:10.1021/acsmacrolett.6b00003

Graphene Oxide as a Radical Initiator: Free Radical and Controlled Radical Polymerization of Sodium 4-Vinylbenzenesulfonate with Graphene Oxide

Dmitry Voylov
, Tomonori Saito
, Bradley Lokitz
, David Uhrig
, Yangyang Wang
, Alexander Agapov
, Adam Holt
, Vera Bocharova
, Alexander Kisliuk
, Alexei P. Sokolov

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The free radical and controlled radical polymerization of sodium 4-vinylbenzenesulfonate using graphene oxide as a radical initiator was studied. This work demonstrates that graphene oxide can initiate radical polymerization in an aqueous solution without any additional initiator. Poly(sodium 4-vinylbenzenesulfonate) obtained via reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization had a controlled molecular weight with a very narrow polydispersity ranging between 1.01 and 1.03. The reduction process of graphene oxide as well as the resulting composite material properties were analyzed in detail.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	199-202
Number of pages	4
Journal	ACS Macro Letters
Volume	5
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.6b00003
State	Published - Feb 16 2016

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