MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF POLYMERIZATION DEGREE EVOLUTION IN COPOLYMERIZATION OF OCTAMETHYLCYCLOTETRASILOXANE WITH N-β-AMINOETHYL-γ-AMINOPROPYLMETHYLDIMETHYOXYSILANE
LUO Zhenghong, LI Jun, ZHAN Xiaoli, CHEN Fengqiu, YANG Yongrong. MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF POLYMERIZATION DEGREE EVOLUTION IN COPOLYMERIZATION OF OCTAMETHYLCYCLOTETRASILOXANE WITH N-β-AMINOETHYL-γ-AMINOPROPYLMETHYLDIMETHYOXYSILANE[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 2004,(6):799-804.
LUO Zhenghong, LI Jun, ZHAN Xiaoli, CHEN Fengqiu, YANG Yongrong. MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF POLYMERIZATION DEGREE EVOLUTION IN COPOLYMERIZATION OF OCTAMETHYLCYCLOTETRASILOXANE WITH N-β-AMINOETHYL-γ-AMINOPROPYLMETHYLDIMETHYOXYSILANE[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 2004,(6):799-804.DOI:
Monte Carlo method has been firstly applied to the bulk ring-opening copolymerization kinetics of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) with N-β-aminoethyl-γ-aminopropylmethyldimethyoxysilane (APAEDMS).A new computational model was established to simulate the copolymerization kinetics based on the free volume theory
which is used to indicate diffusion influence
and chemical reaction kinetic theory.The reaction rate constants are obtained by simulating the main elemental reactions of the copolymerization.Based on the optimal rate constants
Monte Carlo simulation indicates that the copolymerization mechanism of D4 with APAEDMS is an anionic chain-reaction mechanism with the characteristic of step polymerization.