Preparation and characterization of cellulose – g – Acrylonitrile by Atom transfer radical polymerization(ATRP)

Cellulose is one of many polymers found in nature. Wood, paper, and cotton all contain cellulose. Cellulose is an excellent fiber. Wood, cotton, and hemp rope are all made offibrous cellulose. Cellulose is made of repeat units of the monomer glucose. This is the same glucose which your body metabolizes in order to live, but you can t digest it in the form of cellulose. Because cellulose is built out of a sugar monomer, it is called a polysaccharide.[1,2]Atom transfer radical polymerization has been used to successfully synthesize polyacrylonitrile (PAN) with predictable molecular weights and narrow polydispersities.[3]