Particle nucleation and growth in seeded semibatch miniemulsion polymerization of hybrid CeO2/acrylic latexes |
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Authors: | Miren Aguirre Maria Paulis Jose Ramon Leiza |
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Affiliation: | POLYMAT and Kimika Aplikatua Saila, Kimika Zientzien Fakultatea, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Joxe Mari Korta Zentroa, Tolosa Hiribidea 72, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain |
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Abstract: | CeO2/acrylic hybrid coatings with high solids content and with nanoparticle percentages up to 5 wt% have been successfully synthesized by seeded semibatch miniemulsion polymerization process. The droplet nucleation efficiency has been assessed by Capillary Hydrodynamic Chromatography and TEM analysis. The effect of the stability of the miniemulsion, the type of initiator and the number of particles of the seed on the efficiency of the nucleation of the nanodroplets fed has been investigated. It was found that the less stable the hybrid miniemulsion, the higher the diffusion of the monomer out of the droplets and hence, the seed latex particles grew in size. However, the CeO2 nanoparticles did not diffuse out with the monomer and remained in very small droplets that eventually nucleate leading to a bimodal population. When stable miniemulsions were produced by using a polymer as hydrophobe, droplet size increased reducing the number of particles in the seed and monomer diffusion was minimized enhancing nucleation of droplets with larger sizes that produced broad PSDs. Coalescence of droplets was negligible because the size distribution of the nanoceria particles did not change from the seed particles to the final latex. The UV–Vis absorption capacity of the films prepared with increasing the amount of CeO2 increased, but scattering effects were observed at high loading of CeO2 due to the large size of the CeO2 aggregates. |
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Keywords: | Hybrid acrylic/CeO2 Droplet nucleation Particle size distribution |
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