Precipitation polymerization in mixed monomer–solvent droplets |
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| Authors: | Rukhsana Shabnam Klaus Tauer Hideto Minami Hasan Ahmad |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Chemistry, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh;2. Max Planck Institute of Colloid and Interfaces, Am Mühlenberg, Golm, Germany;3. Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University, Japan |
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| Abstract: | This contribution reports the precipitation copolymerization of lauryl methacrylate–divinylbenzene (LMA–DVB) in stable isolated droplets dispersed in water. The droplets contain either n‐hexadecane (HD) or HD–toluene (HD–T) or toluene as a nonsolvent for the resulting P(LMA–DVB) copolymer. The polymerization proceeds smoothly with an appreciably high content of DVB without the formation of coagulum and thus proves the quite high stability of the droplet reactors. The differences in the interaction between the nonsolvent–copolymer combinations allow the variation of the internal morphology of the particles between core and shell type, highly porous, and solid sphere. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2015 , 132, 41881. |
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| Keywords: | copolymers cross‐linking morphology |
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