The paper is an evidence for the capacity of mechanical energy, released by vibratory milling (VM) to activate homopolymerization reactions. The polymerization of acrylonitrile without any initiators or classical catalysts is presented.
The influence of some parameters of the mechanical process (filling ratio, duration, wearing degree of the milling bodies, reaction medium) was studied. Kinetical aspects of mechano‐chemical homopolymerization of acrylonitrile at different conditions are discussed.