Abstract
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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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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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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