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JOURNAL OF POROUS MATERIALS
Volume 20, Issue 2, Pages 339-349Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10934-012-9603-0
Keywords
Aromatic methacrylate monomers; Suspension-emulsion polymerisation; Microspheres; Porous polymers; Textural properties
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The aim of this work was to prepare a new group of aromatic methacrylate monomers, utilise them in preparation of porous microspheres and study the influence of their chemical structure on the textural properties of porous methacrylate microspheres. Polymeric microspheres were prepared by suspension-emulsion polymerisation of four aromatic monomers: methacryloiloxybenzene, 1,2-dimethacryloiloxybenzene, 1,3-dimethacryloiloxybenzene and 1,4-dimethacryloiloxybenzene with another crosslinking agent-trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate. Mass median diameters of obtained beads are in the range 22-35 mu m. The polymerisation reactions were carried out in the presence of a pore forming diluent. The influence of the diluent system on the porous structure of microspheres was studied in detail. To determine the textural properties of the studied microspheres, nitrogen adsorption-desorption and inverse sized exclusion chromatography measurements were used. Specific surface area of the obtained microspheres achieves value from 185 to 510 m(2)/g. Since obtained polymeric materials can be used as chromatographic packings for HPLC their porous structure in a swollen state was investigated. Significant differences in the porous structure parameters for dry and swollen microspheres were observed.
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