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Microemulsion Polymerization (microemulsion + polymerization)
Selected AbstractsMicroemulsion polymerization of cationic pyrroles bearing an imidazolum-ionic liquid moietyJOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE (IN TWO SECTIONS), Issue 3 2009Jie Zhao Abstract A cationic pyrrole derivative, N -(4-butyl-(1-methylimidazole)) pyrrole bromide (Py-Br) bearing an imidazolium-type ionic liquid moiety was synthesized. Microemulsion polymerization of Py-Br in water/oil microemulsions produced poly(N -(4-butyl-(1-methylimidazole)) pyrrole bromide) (PPy-Br) nanoparticles. The bromide anion of the resultant PPy-Br nanoparticles was exchanged in water with different anions, including BF and PF to produce new nanoparticles bearing different counteranions. The results of thermal analysis indicate that the thermal stability of cationic PPy nanoparticles strongly depends on the nature of counteranion. As an application, water-soluble PPy-Br with fine fluorescence property was used as a new sensor for DNA detection. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 47: 746,753, 2009 [source] Microemulsion polymerization of styrene stabilized by sodium dodecyl sulfate and short-chain alcoholsJOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE (IN TWO SECTIONS), Issue 19 2001Chorng-Shyan Chern Abstract Styrene microemulsion polymerizations with different short-chain alcohols [n -CiH2i+1OH (CiOH), where i = 4, 5, or 6] as the cosurfactant were investigated. Sodium dodecyl sulfate and sodium persulfate (SPS) were used as the surfactant and initiator, respectively. The desorption of free radicals out of latex particles played an important role in the polymerization kinetics. An Arrhenius expression for the radical desorption rate coefficient was obtained from the polymerizations at temperatures of 50,70 °C. The polymerization kinetics were not very sensitive to the alkyl chain length of alcohols compared with the temperature effect. The maximal polymerization rate in decreasing order was C6OH > C4OH > C5OH. This was related to the differences in the water solubility of CiOH and the structure of the oil,water interface. The feasibility of using a water-insoluble dye to study the particle nucleation mechanisms was also evaluated. The parameters chosen for the study of the particle nucleation mechanisms include the cosurfactant type (CiOH), the SPS concentration, and the initiator type (oil-soluble 2,2,-azobisisobutyronitrile versus water-soluble SPS). © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 39: 3199,3210, 2001 [source] Effect of polymerization method on structure and properties of cationic polyacrylamideJOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE, Issue 6 2008Yinghua Shen Abstract Acrylamide and 2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyltrimethylammonium chloride (AM/MADQUAT) copolymers were synthesized by solution and inverse microemulsion polymerization using (NH4)2S2O8/NaHSO3 as redox initiator at the same feed mole ratio, and their microstructure, such as sequence distribution and composition distribution, was calculated from monomer reactivity ratios of different polymerization methods. The results show that charge distribution is more uniform for copolymer prepared in inverse microemulsion than that in solution, and copolymer composition distribution is close to unity, and maintains approximately at the feed ratio. Furthermore, the influence of the two structures of cationic polyacrylamides on kaolinite floc size and effective floc density, reduction of Zeta potential and floc compressive yield stress had been investigated at pH 7. The results show that the kaolinite floc size and effective floc density are strongly dependent upon copolymer microstructure, with greater floc size and lower effective floc density being observed for copolymer prepared in inverse microemulsion than for that in solution. Copolymer microstructure has a marked effect on the Zeta potential, whose reduction in the magnitude was much greater in the presence of copolymer prepared in inverse microemulsion than that in solution. Greater compressive yield stress was achieved for the strong flocs produced by copolymer prepared in inverse microemulsion than for the weak flocs produced by that in solution. The difference in flocs compressive yield stress may be attributed to flocs structure. Therefore, in this article, a correlation between the cationic polyacrylamide structure and flocculation property for kaolinite suspension was established. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2008 [source] The production of high polymer to surfactant microlatexesJOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE (IN TWO SECTIONS), Issue 1 2010Raul P. Moraes Abstract Starved-feed microemulsion polymerization of styrene was investigated. The influence of the type (SDS or Dowfax 2A1) and concentration of anionic surfactant on the final particle size of latex made by the polymerization of microemulsions of styrene was studied. In addition, the influence of 1-pentanol and acrylic acid as cosurfactants was examined. Latexes with 20% solids content and polymer to surfactant ratio of 22 were produced, with a particle diameter of 42 nm and very low polydispersity indexes. Smaller particles are produced using SDS than Dowfax 2A1 for the same weight fraction of surfactant; however, similar particle sizes were obtained with the same molar concentrations of SDS and Dowfax 2A1. Further shot additions of monomer increased solids level as high as 40% and polymer to surfactant ratios greater than 40, with particles remaining monodisperse with average diameter smaller than 60 nm. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 48: 48,54, 2010 [source] Photoinitiated polymerization in bicontinuous microemulsions: Fluorescence monitoringJOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE (IN TWO SECTIONS), Issue 18 2006C. Peinado Abstract The photopolymerization of bicontinuous microemulsions was simultaneously monitored with differential scanning calorimetry and fluorescence. The kinetics and mechanism of the reaction were studied throughout the entire photopolymerization reaction. The role played by the surfactant in the kinetics and morphology was studied. The nature of the surfactant changed the autoacceleration process and final conversion. The behavior was explained as a result of the differences in the interfacial properties. Anionic cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) gave rise to a more flexible interfacial film than anionic sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), resulting in competition between the intramolecular and intermolecular reactions in the former systems. As cyclization did not contribute to the increase in the degree of crosslinking, SDS photopolymerization gave solids with a more rigid microstructure. Fluorescence methodology was applied to monitor bicontinuous microemulsion polymerization and to reveal the microstructure and morphology development during photopolymerization. The microemulsion composition was designed to prepare nanoporous, crosslinked materials. Even though the nanostructure of the precursor microemulsions was not retained because of phase separation during polymerization, mesoporous solids were obtained. Their morphologies depended on the nature of the surfactant, and membranes with open cells were successfully prepared with CTAB, whereas more complex morphologies resulted with SDS. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 5291,5303, 2006 [source] Structure and properties of poly(methyl methacrylate) particles prepared by a modified microemulsion polymerizationJOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE (IN TWO SECTIONS), Issue 3 2004Wan Jiang Abstract Nanoscale poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) particles were prepared by modified microemulsion polymerization. Different from particles made by traditional microemulsion polymerization, the particles prepared by modified microemulsion polymerization were multichain systems. PMMA samples, whether prepared by the traditional procedure or the modified procedure, had glass-transition temperatures (Tg's) greater than 120 °C and were rich in syndiotactic content (55,61% rr). After the samples were dissolved in CHCl3, there were decreases in the Tg values for the polymers prepared by the traditional procedure and those prepared by the modified process. However, a more evident Tg decrease was observed in the former than in the latter; still, for both, Tg was greater than 120 °C. Polarizing optical microscopy and wide-angle X-ray diffraction indicated that some ordered regions formed in the particles prepared by modified microemulsion polymerization. The addition of a chain-transfer agent resulted in a decrease in both the syndiotacticity and Tg through decreasing polymer molecular weight. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 42: 733,741, 2004 [source] One-Pot Fabrication of Supramolecular Polymer Particles via Situ Polymerization Stringed Assembly of a Two-Monomer MicroemulsionMACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS, Issue 4 2006Yongxin Wang Abstract Summary: A novel method, situ polymerization stringed assembly (SPSA), is proposed to prepare stable solid or hollow supramolecular polymer particles, which are assembled by numerous nanoparticles. By this method, the fabrication of primary nanoparticles (poly(methyl methacrylate), PMMA), the linkers (polyvinylpyrrolidone, PVP, chains) between the nanoparticles, and the final assembled solid or hollow particles could be achieved in just one-pot by methyl methacrylate (MMA)/N -vinylpyrrolidone (NVP) microemulsion polymerization under UV irradiation. The structures of the supramolecular particles can be changed from solid to hollow by tuning the mass ratio of MMA/NVP in the microemulsion. AFM, TEM, and SEM experiments are performed to identify the results. AFM image of the PMMA/PVP solid particles obtained from the photopolymerization of the microemulsion containing 20 wt.-% MMA, 10 wt.-% NVP, and 5,×,10,2 wt.-% BP. [source] Microemulsion Polymerization Modeling Based on the Experimental Conversion Trend and its DerivativeMACROMOLECULAR SYMPOSIA, Issue 1 2008F. López-Serrano Abstract In this work, the microemulsion polymerization modeling problem is addressed with an integrodifferential approach. The procedure was applied to experimental data, previously presented, on the microemulsion polymerization of hexyl methacrylate (C6MA) and styrene (STY). It was found that: (i) the nucleation rate is not linear with time, as assumed before, (ii) a vitreous effect is observed even in reactions where the polymer's glass transition temperature is lower than the reaction temperature, (iii) radical entry to polymer particles and coagulation among particles are negligible, (iv) the rate decrease interval is also caused by a reduction of active sites, (v) a mechanism in which micelles provide monomer to living particles was detected, and (vi) a simple three-parameter mechanistic model was obtained, capable of describing the studied systems. [source] Factorial design of nanosized polyisoprene synthesis via differential microemulsion polymerizationPOLYMERS FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, Issue 7 2010Bunthita Suppaibulsuk Abstract The synthesis of nanosized polyisoprene latex was carried out by differential microemulsion polymerization using 2, 2,-Azoisobutyronitrile (AIBN) initiator system under various reaction conditions. A fractional factorial experimental design was applied to study the effects of reaction variables: amount of initiator and surfactant, monomer-to-water ratio, reaction temperature, and stirring speed on rubber particle size and monomer conversion. The analysis of the results from the design showed the main effects on the observed response and the amount of initiator, reaction temperature and stirring speed in the range of the test had significant effects on polyisoprene particle size. The significant effects on monomer conversion were reaction temperature, stirring speed, and interaction between reaction temperature and stirring speed in the range of the test. The optimum conditions gave highest monomer conversion of 90% and average particle size of polyisoprene of 27,nm. The nanosized polyisoprene was also characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Microemulsion polymerization of styrene stabilized by sodium dodecyl sulfate and short-chain alcoholsJOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE (IN TWO SECTIONS), Issue 19 2001Chorng-Shyan Chern Abstract Styrene microemulsion polymerizations with different short-chain alcohols [n -CiH2i+1OH (CiOH), where i = 4, 5, or 6] as the cosurfactant were investigated. Sodium dodecyl sulfate and sodium persulfate (SPS) were used as the surfactant and initiator, respectively. The desorption of free radicals out of latex particles played an important role in the polymerization kinetics. An Arrhenius expression for the radical desorption rate coefficient was obtained from the polymerizations at temperatures of 50,70 °C. The polymerization kinetics were not very sensitive to the alkyl chain length of alcohols compared with the temperature effect. The maximal polymerization rate in decreasing order was C6OH > C4OH > C5OH. This was related to the differences in the water solubility of CiOH and the structure of the oil,water interface. The feasibility of using a water-insoluble dye to study the particle nucleation mechanisms was also evaluated. The parameters chosen for the study of the particle nucleation mechanisms include the cosurfactant type (CiOH), the SPS concentration, and the initiator type (oil-soluble 2,2,-azobisisobutyronitrile versus water-soluble SPS). © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 39: 3199,3210, 2001 [source] | ||||||||||