The diploma thesis deals with a detailed study of he esterification reaction between PVAl and acrylic and methacrylic acids. Tha goal is to prepared PVAl-based macromers bearing (meth)acrylic moieties bound to PVAl macromolecular backbone. Attention will be paid especially to equlibrium establishing times and to the influence of reaction mixture composition on the properties of resulting products.

This diploma thesis deals with a detailed study of photoinitiated radical polymerization of macromers base on PVAl containing lateral GMA moieties. The main goal is the evaluation of the influence of photoinitiator concentration, polymerisable group content and/or other aditives on the polymerisation rate. Other goals include the study of possible influencing the photochemical speed by lowering the glass transition temperature, compatibility with various photoinitiators etc. Attention is also paid to the study of prepared 3D polymeric networks properties