Kinetic studies of cationic photopolymerizations of cycloaliphatic epoxide, triethyleneglycol methyl vinyl ether, and cyclohexene oxide

Abstract The cationic photopolymerizations of monofunctional monomers and cycloaliphatic diepoxide monomer were examined in detail. Phenomenological kinetic models were developed for photopolymerizations of the monofunctional and difunctional monomers. For monofunctional monomers, the nonlinear models gave an excellent fit to the experimental data. Although a second‐order autocatalytic model was shown to be invalid above 10% conversion for the …