Journal
COLLOID AND POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 295, Issue 4, Pages 565-572Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00396-017-4045-5
Keywords
Hollow polymer particles; Microsuspension polymerization; Mg(OH)(2); Hydrolysis
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- Primary Research and Development Plan of Jiangsu Province [BE2016183]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province for Youth [BK20160960]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25288054] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Several methods consisting of two or multi-step processes have been so far proposed for the preparation of sub- and micrometer-sized hollow polymer particles. In this study, we proposed an innovative one-step synthesis of the hollow polymer particles by applying microsuspension copolymerization of styrene and methyl acrylate with Mg(OH)(2) as dispersant. In this method, Mg(OH)(2) acted not only as dispersant, which covered densely at the surface of the monomer droplets, but also caused hydrolysis reaction of MA unit within styrene-methyl acrylate copolymer particles during the polymerization due to giving alkaline pH in the aqueous medium. It is also important that methyl acrylates are predominantly polymerized over styrene at the initial stage of the microsuspension copolymerization.
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