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Wrinkles Obtained by Frontal Polymerization/Vitrification

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Wrinkled Polymer Surfaces

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Frontal polymerization (FP) or vitrification consists in the generation of a reaction front, in a localized sector of the material, that travels in a particular direction. Their remarkable flexibility permits to controllably polymerize materials with different molecular weights and variable chemical nature. One of the advantages of FP is that it is possible to generate thin layers of a polymerized material over an unpolymerized composite, being suitable for creating wrinkled patterns in homogenous polymeric materials. In this chapter, the main types of frontal polymerization are described, as well as several examples and applications which take advantage of this methodology to form wrinkled patterns of variable materials.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge financial support given by FONDECYT Grant No. 1170209. M.A. Sarabia acknowledges the financial support given by CONICYT through the doctoral program Scholarship Grant. J. Rodríguez-Hernández acknowledges financial support from Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) (Project MAT2016-78437-R, FEDER EU). Finally, this study was funded by VRAC Grant Number L216-04 of Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana.

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  1. Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Matemáticas y del Medio Ambiente, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile

    C. M. González-Henríquez

  2. Programa Institucional de Fomento a la Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile

    C. M. González-Henríquez

  3. Escuela de Ingeniería, Departamento de Ingeniería Estructural y Geotecnia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    M. A. Sarabia Vallejos

  4. Instituto de Ingeniería Biológica y Médica, Santiago, Chile

    M. A. Sarabia Vallejos

  5. Departamento de Química Macromolecular Aplicada, Polymer Functionalization Group. Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ICTP-CSIC), Madrid, Spain

    Juan Rodríguez-Hernández

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González-Henríquez, C.M., Sarabia Vallejos, M.A., Rodríguez-Hernández, J. (2019). Wrinkles Obtained by Frontal Polymerization/Vitrification. In: González-Henríquez, C., Rodríguez-Hernández, J. (eds) Wrinkled Polymer Surfaces. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05123-5_3

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