The efficient synthesis of all-acrylic, film-forming, core-shell colloidal nanocomposite particles via in situ aqueous emulsion copolymerization of methyl methacrylate with n-butyl acrylate in the presence of a glycerol-functionalized ultrafine silica sol using a cationic azo initiator at 60 °C is reported. It is shown that relatively monodisperse nanocomposite particles can be produced with ty...

High solid content poly (styrene-co-butyl acrylate) latex ( with 20% and 40% solid content) including high amounts of Cloisite 30B (7 wt% and 10 wt%) were kinetically investigated. Gravimetric method via measuring the rate of polymerization, number of particles and average number of radicals per particle was used. Results showed that by increasing the solid content; the average diameter of poly...

Electrospun polystyrene materials have been employed as oil absorbents, but they have visible drawbacks such as poor strength at low temperature and unreliable integrity because of brittleness and insufficient cohesive force among fibers. Butyl acrylate can polymerize into flexible chains, and its polymer can be used as elastomer and adhesive material. Thereby it is possible to obtain the mater...

We report the investigation of fundamental entropic chain effects that enable the tuning of modular ligation chemistry - for example dynamic Diels-Alder (DA) reactions in materials applications - not only classically via the chemistry of the applied reaction sites, but also via the physical and steric properties of the molecules that are being joined. Having a substantial impact on the reaction...

In this work, photoactive polymer film coatings were prepared using the breath figure (BF) method, starting from a poly(tert-butyl acrylate-styrene block), PtBA-block-PS and photochromic agent, 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-3,3-dimethylindoline-6-nitrobenzopyran (SP) grafted onto acrylate) block. The effects upon composite behavior in response to solvent concentration, type of relative humidity studied. F...

As a peculiar and powerful energy source, microwave has been widely applied to optimize and accelerate the chemical reaction. As an alternative to conventional heating techniques, microwave irradiation provides an effective, selective and fast synthetic method by heating the molecules directly through the interaction between the microwave energy and molecular dipole moments of the monomers. Thi...

Abstract In order to improve the stability and safety of lithium (Li) metal anodes, an innovative artificial solid electrolyte interface (SEI) film Li Poly (tert-butyl acrylate-co-ethyl acrylate-co-methacrylic acid) (LiPTBEM) has been designed. This thin uniformly SEI is stable, which can suppress continuous side reactions between metal, modified achieve better electrochemical performance. Symm...

We report on two important advances in radical polymerization with reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT polymerization). (1) Electrochemically initiated emulsion RAFT (eRAFT) provides rapid of styrene at ambient temperature. The electrolytes and mediators required for eRAFT are located the aqueous continuous phase separate from low-molar-mass-dispersity macroRAFT agent mediato...