The extensive use of polystyrenes led to the accumulation of plastic waste because of the non-degradability in natural circumstance
which has caused serious environmental impacts
dubbed "white pollution". Therefore
it is highly desirable to design and prepare degradable polystyrenes. A new macromolecular chain transfer agent was designed and synthesized by polyesterfication of the monomer with dicarboxylic groups
S
S
'-bis(
α
α
'-dimethyl-
α
"-acetic acid)-trithiocarbonate
and the monomer with diiodine groups
1
3-bis(iodo-methyl)-2-nitrobenzene. Then
multiblock polystyrenes (PS) containing
o
-nitrobenzyl ester and trithiocarbonate moieties as photosensitive units in the main chain weresuccessfully synthesized by reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization of styrene in the presence of the macromolecular chain transfer agent. Moreover
the photodegradation behavior of the multiblock PS in tetrahydrofuran and in solid state was examined under ultravioletray (UV) irradiation at room temperature in air atmosphere. The structure and molecular weight of the macromolecular chain transfer agent and the block polymer were characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (
1
H-NMR) and gel permeation chromatography (GPC). The molecular weight and molecular weight distribution of the macromolecular chain transfer agent were 8400 and 1.8
respectively. The kinetics of RAFT polymerization of styrene was studied
and it was found that the polymerization was a first-order reaction with respect to monomer concentration. The photodegradation and chemical degradation behaviour were investigated through
1
H-NMR
ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy (UV-Vis) and GPC analyses. The results demonstrated that the multiblock polystyrenes could be degraded into separate PS blocks
not only by UV light
but also by hydrolysis or amiolysis of the ester and trithiocarbonate groups. In addition
thermal properties of the multiblock PS were measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) under a nitrogenatmosphere. The glass transition temperature and the maximum rate of the decomposition of the multiblock PS appeared respectively at 97 and 385℃. The result of thermal analysis indicated that the thermal properties of the multiblock PS are very similar to those of conventional polystyrene.
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