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JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY
卷 46, 期 7, 页码 2510-2524出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/pola.22583
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emulsion polymerization; microgels; stimuli-sensitive polymers
Poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) (PVCL) is well known for its thermoresponsive behavior in aqueous solutions. PVCL combines useful and important properties; it is biocompatible polymer with the phase transition in the region of physiological temperature (32-38 degrees C). This combination of properties allows consideration of PVCL as a material for design biomedical devices and use in drug delivery systems. In this work, PVCL based temperature-sensitive crosslinked particles (microgels) were synthesized in a batch reactor to analyze the effect of the crosslinker, initiator, surfactant, temperature, and VCL concentration on polymerization process and final microgels characteristics. The mean particle diameters at different temperatures and the volume phase-transition temperature of the final product were analyzed. To obtain information about the inner structure of microgel particles, Semicontinuous polymerizations were carried out and the evolution of the hydrodynamic average particle diameters at different temperatures of the microgel synthesized was investigated. In the case of microgel particles obtained in a batch reactor the size and the swelling-de-swelling behavior as a function of the temperature of the medium can be tuned by modulating the reaction variables. When the microgel particles were synthesized in a semibatch reactor different swelling-de-swelling behaviors were observed depending on particles inner structure. (C) 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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