A theoretical method to calculate the mode of polyurethane(PU) prepolymers grafted to polyacrylic(PAC) was presented. Using hydroxyethyl acrylate(HEA) as coupling agent, polyurethane-acrylics(PU-AC) hybrid latexes were prepared with varying HEA level and the reaction of HEA with PU prepolymers at different temperatures, and PU grafted to PAC was experimentally determined. The results show that PU grafted to PAC regularly increased, and the non-grafted and linear free PU regularly decreased with increase in HEA/NCO(isocyanate group). The grafted PU on PAC was not proportional to HEA. More than half of linear PU prepolymers were grafted to PAC when HEA was at a low level with HEA/NCO at 0.33. While grafted PU increased to 84.80%(mass fraction), when HEA/NCO increased to 1.0. The results were interpreted based on the theoretical calculation of PU grafted to PAC by the present method.
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