Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 34, Issue 29, Pages 8571-8580Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b01047
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- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) [16H00760, 16H00786, 17H04892]
- Japan Science Society [29-339]
- JSPS KAKENHI [16H06280]
- [18J11622]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H00760, 16H00786, 17H04892] Funding Source: KAKEN
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In a previous study, we have ascertained that the charge distribution in hydrogel microspheres (microgels) plays a crucial role in controlling the nanocomposite structure of the polystyrene obtained from the seeded emulsion polymerization (SEP) of styrene in the presence of microgels. However, all these polymerizations were conducted at high temperature, where most of these microgels were dehydrated and deswollen. In the present study, we initially verified that the nanocomposite microgels can be synthesized even when the seed microgels are swollen and hydrated during the SEP of styrene. These highly swollen microgels were used as the nucleation sites for the polystyrene, and subsequently the propagation of the hydrophobic polystyrenes proceeded within water swollen microgels.
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