The goal is to develop polymers containing known chemical repellents for mice and small rodents and to place them under environmental strains to observe how they react. The polymers contain two known repellents which are cycloheximide and tri-nitrobenzene. These repellents have shown significant repellency in past experiments. The first round of polymers have been cast in petri dishes and placed in various environments. These environments consist of the greenhouse to simulate humidity and moisture, an oven set at 40 degrees Celsius to simulate a hot day in the summer, and a control group which were placed in a room temperature hood. UV-Vis spectra have been obtained over the course of the experiment in order to formulate a dissipation plot for the chemicals in the polymers. The experiment will continue with the second round of polymers being placed in the same environments for a similar amount of time. During the second round the UV-Vis spectra will be obtained as well to formulate another plot as well as several of the polymers will be dissolved again and placed in the GC-MS in order to observe any gaseous side products from the experiment.

Chemical Repellents in polymers undergo environmental strains

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