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JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Volume 43, Issue 11, Pages 2258-2265Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pola.20706
Keywords
curing of polymers; epoxide; microemulsion polymerization; nanoparticles; poly(glycidyl methacrylate); thermosets
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Glycidyl-functional polymer nanoparticles [poly(glycidyl methacrylate) (PGMA)] were fabricated with microemulsion polymerization. The successful fabrication of PGMA nanoparticles was confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). A TEM image showed that the average diameter of the PGMA nanoparticles was approximately 10-28 nm and was fairly monodisperse. As the surfactant concentration increased, the average size of the nanoparticles decreased and approached an asymptotic value. A significant reduction of the nanoparticle size to the nanometer scale led to an enhanced number of surface functionalities, which played an important role in the curing reaction. The PGMA nanoparticles were cured with a low-temperature curing agent, diethylene triamine, to produce ultrafine thermoset nanoparticles. The low-temperature curing process was performed below the glass-transition temperature of PGMA to prevent the coagulation and deformation of the nanoparticles. A TEM image indicated that the cured PGMA nanoparticles did not exhibit interparticle aggregation and morphological transformation during curing. The average size of the cured PGMA nanoparticles was consistent with that of the pristine PGMA nanoparticles (c) 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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