Semibatch RAFT polymerization for producing ST/BA copolymers with controlled gradient composition profiles

Abstract With controlled/living radical copolymerization, the composition profile along polymer chains becomes a tunable parameter in preparing copolymer products for novel materials properties. In this work, a novel series of styrene/butyl acrylate (St/BA) copolymers with precisely designed composition profiles (uniform, linear gradient, tanh gradient, and triblock with a linear gradient mid‐block) were produced using a semibatch reversible …