FREE-RADICAL-INITIATED CROSSLINKING OF POLYMERS

摘要

The present invention is a free-radical carbon-FRTS-carbon crosslinkable polymeric composition. The resulting carbon-FRTS-carbon crosslinked polymer is prepared from at least one polymer which upon forming free radicals preferentially degrades or carbon-carbon crosslinks. The present invention permits suppression of the preferential reaction while permitting the polyme r to be carbon-FRTS-carbon crosslinked through a free-radical trapping species . Suppressing the undesirable degradation or carbon-carbon crosslinking reacti on and permitting the desirable carbon-FRTS-carbon crosslinking reaction yield a uniquely crosslinked polymer.