Emulsion Prepared Vinyl Acetate-Based Terpolymer: a Review on Their Preparations, Properties, and Applications

Vinyl acetate (VAc) based terpolymers exhibit some outstanding properties. In this review, we report different types of vinyl acetate (VAc) based terpolymers, their preparation via emulsion polymerization, properties, and applications. Emulsion is an environment-friendly industrial polymerization technique. Latex, the end product of emulsion polymerization can be used directly for certain applications. This draws the interest of the researcher to use it for co- and ter polymerization. Terpolymerization of vinyl acetate with different monomers leads to the preparation of terpolymers with some excellent properties. Various types of processes used for the preparation of such terpolymer were reviewed and discussed in this report. This review also focuses on the morphological and thermal behavior of VAc-based terpolymers for understanding the polymerization chemistry and also the progress in this field.