Controlled polymerization of methyl acrylate in the presence of copper MOF (Basolite®C300): strategy and characterization
Edina Rusen, Cristina Stavarache, Aurel Diacon, Bogdan Vasile, Alexandra Mocanu, Oana Brincoveanu, Gabriela Toader, Cosmin Romanitan, Adina Boldeiu · 2026
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Edina Rusen and colleagues explore in 2026 a copper-loaded porous crystal as a helper for controlled polymerisation, the chemistry that grows plastic chains to precise lengths. The crystal, a commercial metal-organic framework, acts as a co-catalyst that releases the active copper ions needed to start and regulate chain growth of methyl acrylate, a common acrylic building block. Activation came either from copper wire or from red light, and the team used chromatography, spectroscopy, and magnetic resonance to work out which reaction pathway actually ran.
Evidence pointed to one specific living polymerisation route in the reported analyses, with about a quarter of chains confirmed still living, meaning able to grow further on demand. Under red light the process also generated copper nanoparticles inside the mixture, and the same initiation scheme produced a stable emulsion directly. The work sketches a light-friendly, crystal-assisted route to well-defined acrylic polymers.
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| CREATOR | Edina Rusen, Cristina Stavarache, Aurel Diacon, Bogdan Vasile, Alexandra Mocanu, Oana Brincoveanu, Gabriela Toader, Cosmin Romanitan, Adina Boldeiu |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30459 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |