Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 29, Issue 33, Pages 10579-10585Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la4025537
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan [22685024]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22685024] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We report on a simple and rapid method to produce multilayered composite microgels. Thermosensitive microgels were synthesized by aqueous free radical precipitation polymerization using N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAm) as a monomer. Using the microgels as cores, surfactant-free seeded polymerization of an oil-soluble monomer, glycidyl methacrylate (GMA), was carried out at 70 degrees C, where the microgels were highly deswollen in water. All of the oil-soluble monomers were polymerized, and the resultant polymers were attached on the pre-existing microgel cores, resulting in hard shell formation. It is worth mentioning that secondary particles of oil-soluble monomers have never been formed during the polymerization. The composite microgels were characterized by electron microscopy and dynamic light scattering. In particular, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measurements revealed that the surface of the composite microgels was composed of a hydrogel layer, although microgel cores were covered by polyGMA shell. The mechanism of the trilayered composite rnicrogel formation will be discussed.
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