Vb. Taraban et al., PULSED RADIATIVE CHANGE IN ABSORPTION OF POLY-METHYL METHACRYLATE IN THE VISIBLE SPECTRUM, High energy chemistry, 27(5), 1993, pp. 366-370
A study was made of the dynamics of change in radiation-induced absorp
tion in the 400-600-nm region for polymethyl methacrylate samples irra
diated with doses up to 5-500 kGy (D)= 3 Gy/sec) while stored in air a
t room temperature. It was found that the absorption was caused not on
ly by the long-wavelength portions of intense absorption bands of the
radiolysis products with maxima in the near-UV region, but also by the
absorption of terminal alkyl (maximum at 410-412 nm) and allyl (maxim
um at 425 nm) macroradicals.