Modeling and Development of Thiol-Ene Photopolymerizations

Currently, the field of photopolymerization is dominated by (meth)acrytate systems. Thiol-ene photopolymerizations constitute a class of polymerizations, which have many of the advantages of acrylate polymerizations including spatial and temporal control of polymerization, solventless polymerization, and good material . Further, these reactions have several advantages over acrylate polymerizations like rapid curing in the presence of little or no added photo , reduced sensitiviti to oxygen , lower volume shrinkage, delayed gelation, and reduced polymerization stresses