Article pubs.acs.org/Macromolecules
Limits of Vinylidene Fluoride RAFT Polymerization Marc Guerre,† S. M. Wahidur Rahaman,‡ Bruno Améduri,† Rinaldo Poli,*,‡,§ and Vincent Ladmiral*,† †
Institut Charles Gerhardt, Ingénierie et Architectures Macromoléculaires, UMR 5253 CNRS, UM, ENSCM, Place Eugène Bataillon, UM, 34095 Montpellier, Cedex 5, France ‡ CNRS, LCC (Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination), UPS, INPT, Université de Toulouse, 205 Route de Narbonne, BP 44099, F-31077 Toulouse, Cedex 4, France § Institut Universitaire de France, 1, rue Descartes, 75231 Paris, Cedex 05, France S Supporting Information *
ABSTRACT: The investigations reported in this article probe the behavior of the RAFT polymerization of vinylidene fluoride (VDF) when degrees of polymerization higher than 50 are targeted: they demonstrate that higher molar mass PVDF (11 000 g mol−1) can indeed be prepared by RAFT polymerization, but only at rather low monomer conversions (
