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Functional UV-Curable Polymers and Their Composites: Synthesis, Properties and Applications

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymeric Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 509

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Interests: adhesives; photopolymerization; telomerization; acrylic resins; epoxy resins; functional materials; coatings
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 Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, much attention has been paid to functional materials. Many polymerization techniques have already been described that allow the introduction of functional groups or their modification. Nowadays, the challenge is not only polymerization on a laboratory scale but also on an industrial scale. Among the methods above, photopolymerization has been widely recognized for years due to the use of novel photopolymerization techniques, UV light sources, new initiator systems, and new monomers. The physicochemical properties of functional monomers, polymers, and composites determine their future applications, so it is important to study them in detail, including with new testing methods.

This Special Issue will present the most recent developments in high-performance functional UV-curable polymers and their composites, as well as their potential applications.

Dr. Agnieszka Kowalczyk
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Keywords

  • functional monomers
  • functional polymers
  • functional resins
  • functional materials
  • coatings
  • adhesives
  • UV curing
  • photopolymerization
  • controlled polymerizations techniques
  • composites

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The Effect of Photoreactive Diluents on the Properties of a Styrene-Free Vinyl Ester Resin for Cured-In-Place Pipe (CIPP) Technology
by Małgorzata Krasowska, Agnieszka Kowalczyk, Krzysztof Kowalczyk, Rafał Oliwa and Mariusz Oleksy
Materials 2025, 18(10), 2304; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma18102304 - 15 May 2025
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Cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) technology is a trenchless rehabilitation method for damaged pipelines in which a resin-saturated liner (often a fiber-reinforced type) is inserted into a host pipe and cured in situ, typically using a UV light beam or steam. This study investigates the [...] Read more.
Cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) technology is a trenchless rehabilitation method for damaged pipelines in which a resin-saturated liner (often a fiber-reinforced type) is inserted into a host pipe and cured in situ, typically using a UV light beam or steam. This study investigates the influence of selected photoreactive diluents on the photopolymerization process of a styrene-free vinyl ester resin designed for the CIPP applications by evaluating the rheological properties, photopolymerization kinetics (photo-DSC), thermal characteristics (DSC), crosslinking density (gel content), and mechanical properties of thick (15 mm) UV-cured layers. The tested diluents included monofunctional (i.e., methyl methacrylate and vinyl neodecanoate), difunctional (1,6-hexanediol diacrylate, aliphatic urethane acrylates, and an epoxy acrylate), and trifunctional monomers (trimethylolpropane triacrylate, pentaerythritol triacrylate, and trimethylolpropane ethoxylate triacrylate). The key findings demonstrate that the addition of pentaerythritol triacrylate (the most attractive diluent) increases the flexural strength (+6%) and deflection at strength (+28%) at the unchanged flexural modulus value (ca. 2.1 GPa). The difunctional epoxy acrylate caused an even greater increase in the deflection (+52%, at a 5% increase in the flexural strength). Full article
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