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. 2019 Mar 13;11(3):487. doi: 10.3390/polym11030487

Table 3.

A comparison of BMA and HEMA homopolymerization kp (L/mol s) values in bulk taken from literature [5,10], experimentally determined in this study (BMA only), and estimated (with 95% confidence intervals) according to the terminal model (Equation (5)) with rHEMA = 2.27 and rBMA = 0.66.

Monomer Literature Experimental Fit Values
50 °C 80 °C 50 °C 80 °C 50 °C 80 °C
BMA 756 1559 816 1673 835 ± 19 1791 ± 63
HEMA 2563 5123 2355 ± 56 4105 ± 142