Heterophase polymerizations: A physical and kinetic comparison and categorization

Inverse suspension polymerization of sodium acrylate: Synthesis and characterization

“…Bartlelt and Reichert 20 worked on the influence of the interfacial composition and on the nature of the dispersion media to obtain a good understanding of the micellization phenomena. The polymer formed by the inverse suspension method has a lower molecular weight than the polymer obtained in solution, and Hunkeler et al 21 explained that this result is due to a transfer reaction to the hydrophilic moiety of the emulsifier. Different mechanisms and kinetics were proposed for the inverse suspension polymerization of acrylamide using sorbitan esters of fatty acids as surfactants and block copolymeric surfactants.…”

Poly(ethylene glycol) Microparticles Produced by Precipitation Polymerization in Aqueous Solution

“…Solution-phase methods of microparticle formation are advantageous due to their scalability. The various solution phase methods may be categorized in part by the locations of the monomer and initiator in the various phases present during polymerization 3, 4. In emulsion polymerizations, the monomer and initiator are in different phases, while in suspension polymerizations, the monomer and initiator are in the same phase of a two phase system.…”

Emulsion Polymerization: Effects of Polymerization Variables on the Properties of Vinyl Acetate Based Emulsion Polymers

“…Finally, the small latex particles less than 50 nm are obtained from micro-emulsion polymerization. They on the average contain only one polymer molecule with average molecular weight exceeding one million [14][15]51].…”

“…As well as "inverse emulsion polymerization", there is also "inverse micro-emulsion polymerization" [15,51,55].…”