A PLP‐SEC Investigation of Di(Ethylene Glycol) Methyl Ether Methacrylate Radical Polymerization Propagation Kinetics in Solution
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Abstract
ABSTRACT The pulsed laser polymerization size exclusion chromatography (PLP‐SEC) technique is used to explore the impact of solvent polarity and composition—from bulk to ethanol (EtOH) /water mixtures to aqueous solutions and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)—on the homopropagation kinetics of di(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (DEGMEMA) between 30 and 90°C. The variation in the propagation rate coefficient ( k p ) is attributed to entropic factors, as the activation energy remains approximately constant across all solvent mixtures at a value characteristic of other methacrylates (∼ 21 kJ·mol −1 ). The exception to this generalization is for EtOH, where activation energy is lowered by 3–4 kJ·mol −1 , and the k p for a solution containing 50 wt.% DEGMEMA is lower than the bulk values. DEGMEMA k p values increase as monomer content is decreased from 50 to 10 wt.% in DMSO, EtOH, and EtOH/H 2 O solvents. Most notably, the k p of 5 wt.% DEGMEMA in water (close to its solubility limit) is higher by a factor of 12 compared to the bulk system. These new results for a member of the PEGylated monomer family also provide insight into the increase in chain‐growth rates expected for non‐functional methacrylates between bulk (i.e., particle) and aqueous phases in emulsion polymerization systems.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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