@article{6794ebc5c20f4481a12cbdb9dbd968b3,
title = "Surface-initiated reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization of chloroprene and mechanical properties of matrix-free polychloroprene nanocomposites",
abstract = "RAFT polymerization and surface-initiated RAFT polymerization (SI-RAFT) of chloroprene was studied. The SI-RAFT polymerization rate of chloroprene was found to be slower than free solution RAFT polymerization, and further regulated by the graft density of grafted polymers. The resulting polychloroprene-grafted silica nanoparticles were directly crosslinked to obtain matrix-free polychloroprene nanocomposites that showed good nanoparticle dispersion and superior mechanical properties compared with unfilled polychloroprene rubber.",
keywords = "Nanocomposites, RAFT polymerization, Surface modification",
author = "Yang Zheng and Abbas, {Zaid M.} and Amrita Sarkar and Zachary Marsh and Morgan Stefik and Benicewicz, {Brian C.}",
note = "Funding Information: We acknowledge the support from the SC SmartState program . AS and ZM acknowledge partial support of their work as Leon Shechter graduate fellows. This work made use of the South Carolina SAXS Collaborative, supported by the NSF Major Research Instrumentation program ( DMR-1428620 ). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1016/j.polymer.2017.12.028",
language = "English",
volume = "135",
pages = "193--199",
journal = "Polymer",
issn = "0032-3861",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
}