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Photopolymerization And Characterization Of Crosslinked Thiol-Ene Networks And Poss/Thiol-Ene Nanocomposites, Tolecia Sharonda Shaunee Clark

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Interests in the area of thiol-ene photopolymerization are rapidly expanding due to the numerous advantages over the polymers produced by traditional solvent based polymerizations. Although current research of photoinitiated thiol-ene polymerization is diverse, numerous opportunities are available for investigating structure/property and structure/reactivity relationships and novel material applications. This research in this dissertation includes a fundamental study of the effect of monomelic thiol functionality on thiol-ene polymerization kinetics and formation of the thiol-ene network structure, and an investigation of the development of novel silicate based thiol-ene nanocomposites. The first fundamental study investigates the effect of thiol functionality on the kinetics and …