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High Throughput Characterization of Polymer Libraries by Diffuse Reflectance Infrared Spectroscopy
Author(s) -
Baudis Stefan,
Lendlein Andreas,
Behl Marc
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
macromolecular materials and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1439-2054
pISSN - 1438-7492
DOI - 10.1002/mame.201400073
Subject(s) - comonomer , materials science , polymer , characterization (materials science) , copolymer , diffuse reflectance infrared fourier transform , acrylate , styrene , fourier transform infrared spectroscopy , throughput , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , photocatalysis , catalysis , computer science , chemistry , composite material , telecommunications , engineering , wireless
Diffuse reflectance FTIR (DRIFT) was established as a high throughput characterization method for classic copolymer systems. Four different methyl methacrylate‐based polymer libraries with styrene, N‐ vinylpyrrolidone, 4‐vinylpyridine, or 2‐carboxyethyl acrylate as comonomers were synthesized using an automated/robotic synthesizer platform, and analyzed by 1 H NMR and DRIFT. By multivariate data analysis both data sets were compared and correlations with R 2 between 0.9373 and 0.9971 could be achieved. By this means high throughput screening of comonomer contents of these polymer libraries was enabled.