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Fabrication of transparent polymer-inorganic hybrid material

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Polymer-inorganic hybrid materials composed of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and zinc compounds were prepared by sol-gel in-situ transition polymerization of zinc complex in PMMA matrix. Zinc acetate dihydrate dissolved in ethanol was used as the inorganic precursor. Monoethanolamine (MEA) acted as a complexing agent to control the hydrolysis of zinc acetate to produce a zinc compound network, and then PMMA, formed in-situ through a radical polymerization, were chemically bonded to the forming zinc compound network to realize a hybrid material. Transparent homogenous hybrid materials with slight colours from pink to yellow were fabricated by varying the composition. TEM, FT-IR were employed to investigate structural and physical properties. The UV-shielding effect was evaluated by UV-VIS. The low content of zinc (around 0.02 wt%) and the fine particle size rendered it visibly transparent and capable of greatly attenuating UV radiation in the full UV range.

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  1. Materials Science and Engineering, The Royal Institute of Technology, 10044, Stockholm, Sweden

    S. Li, M. S. Toprak & M. Muhammed

  2. Laboratoire de Médecine Régénérative et de Pharmacobiologie, Integrative Biosciences Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Y. S. Jo

  3. Institute for Science & Technology in Medicine, Keele University, ST4 7QB, United Kingdom

    D. K. Kim

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Li, S., Toprak, M.S., Jo, Y.S. et al. Fabrication of transparent polymer-inorganic hybrid material. MRS Online Proceedings Library 876, 845 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-876-R8.45

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