1.
Macromol Rapid Commun
; 33(20): 1770-4, 2012 Oct 26.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22837041
RESUMO
Styrene is the classical monomer obeying zero-one kinetics in radical emulsion polymerization. Accordingly, particles that are less than 100 nm in diameter contain either one or no growing radical(s). We describe a unique photoinitiated polymerization reaction accelerated by snowballing radical generation in a continuous flow reactor. Even in comparison to classical emulsion polymerization, these unprecedented snowballing reactions are rapid and high-yielding, with each particle simultaneously containing more than one growing radical. This is a consequence of photoinitiator incorporation into the nascent polymer backbone and repeated radical generation upon photo-irradiation.
Assuntos
Radicais Livres/química , Polímeros/química , Emulsões/química , Peso Molecular , Óxidos/química , Fosfinas/química , Processos Fotoquímicos , Polimerização
2.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
; 51(19): 4648-52, 2012 May 07.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22473613