The polymerization reaction is necessary for all our bodily activities from metabolism to growth. Also, polymer reactions help benefit high performance in the manufacturing and engineering sectors from home appliances to automobiles. For this understanding of polymerization, their flexibility, functions and reactions, control rate of polymeric reaction are needed. Polymerization reactions proceed with additional monomeric units or by linking the segments, and condensation reaction with the emission of water and other by-products. Polymers are viscous, hence at the lower temperature, in the absence of the solvent, the viscosity of the mixture lowers the heat transfer and the polymer becomes crystalline, hence to overcome the shortcomings the reaction is carried out in a low viscous continuous phase.
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