MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISATION OF POLY METHYL METHACRYLATE FOR SURFACE COATING OF METALS

Poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) is one of the most important industrial plastics. On the whole, characterization of PMMA refers to the general process by which its structure and properties are investigated and measured. It is a radical process, without which no scientific understanding of PMMA can be made certain. The scope of the term “characterization of PMMA” differs. Some researchers limit its use to modi operandi which study the microscopic configuration and chattels of PMMA which is called microscopy while others use it to refer to any analysis process including macroscopic techniques viz. mechanical testing, thermal study and density computation. Here, we are adopting both macroscopic techniques as well as microscopic techniques such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-Ray diffraction (XRD) tests to characterize PMMA in order to verify whether the material is pure and amorphous in nature so that this material could be used subsequently for metal coating.