Journal
JOURNAL OF FLUORINE CHEMISTRY
Volume 183, Issue -, Pages 82-91Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluchem.2016.01.010
Keywords
Fluorinated acrylate; RAFT emulsion polymerization; Amphiphilic block copolymer; Hydrophobicity
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Funding
- National Basic Research Program of China [2015CB655105]
- National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [51225801]
- National Nature Science Foundation [51408275]
- State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures (Wuhan University of Technology) [SYSJJ2015-06]
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In this work, the hydrophobicity of traditional acrylic emulsion films was remarkably improved by introducing some fluorinated diblock copolymer emulsions. Reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) was utilized to synthesize poly(methacrylic acid)-b-poly(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl methacrylate-co-2,2,3,4,4,4-hexafluorobutyl acrylate) (PMAA-b-P(TFEMA-co-HFBA)) amphiphilic block copolymer emulsion by using the PMAA homopolymer with dithiobenzoate end-groups as macro-RAFT agent. The hydrophobic block of P(TFEMA-co-HFBA) was designed with the various P(TFEMA-co-HFBA) block lengths and P-0 ([TFEMA](0)/[HFBA](0)). And the final conversion of mixed fluorinated monomers (TFEMA, HFBA) could reach about 70% when the value of p(0) was greater than 1/2. With the formation of solvophobic P(TFEMA-co-HFBA) block by propagating the fluorinated monomers on the PMAA chain, the PMAA-b-P(TFEMA-co-HFBA) block copolymer in situ self-assembled into core/shell particle with P (TFEMA-co-HFBA) and PMAA blocks as core and shell matrix, respectively. The number-average-particle diameter of core/shell particles located in the range from 56 to 93 nm was discovered by the way of self assembly nucleation. The particle size distribution (PSD) of all samples is close to the traditional acrylic emulsion system. The fluorinated block with low surface energy has good hydrophobicity, hence, the traditional acrylic emulsion film modified by the fluorinated diblock copolymer emulsions exhibited excellent hydrophobicity. The effects of various parameters such as the treatment temperature, the processing time, the fluorinated diblock copolymer emulsions ratios and the composition of fluorinated diblock copolymer emulsions on the hydrophobicity of fluorinated composite film were also investigated in this work. The water contact angles of the final fluorinated composite films with water are more than 100 degrees and the fluorinated composite films have good hydrophobicity with low amounts fluoropolymer emulsions (5-20%). (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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