Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 126, Issue -, Pages 187-192Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2018.12.209
Keywords
Chitin nanofiber; Composite particle; Hollow particle; Pickering emulsion polymerization; Styrene
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This study investigated Pickering emulsion polymerization of styrene using self-assembled chitin nanofibers (CNFs) as stabilizers to produce CNF-based composite particles, which were further converted into hollow particles. Previously, we reported that regeneration from a chitin/1-allyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide ion gel using methanol fabricated self-assembled CNFs. Prior to the emulsion polymerization, CNFs were maleylated by reaction with maleic anhydride in the presence of perchloric acid. After styrene was added to a dispersion of the produced anionic CNFs in ammonia aq., a mixture was ultorasonicated to give an emulsion, in which styrene droplets were stably surrounded by CNFs. Radical polymerization was then conducted in the presence of potassium per sulfate as an initiator to produce the composite particles. Particle sizes became smaller as the amounts of CNFs increased. The hollow particles were prepared by solubilizing out the polystyrene cores with toluene. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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