Optical attenuation is important in many photopolymerization applications. For a photobleaching initiator, we develop an unsteady one-dimensional model accounting for initiator consumption and light intensity variation, and derive relationships for the spatial and temporal variation of the local initiator concentration and initiation rate.
Revised: March 28, 2002 |
Published: December 1, 2001
Citation
Terrones G., and A.J. Pearlstein. 2001.Effects of optical attenuation and consumption of a photobleaching initiator on local initiation rates in photopolymerizations.Macromolecules 34, no. 10:3195-3204.PNNL-SA-33189.