ZnO/PS core–shell hybrid microspheres prepared with miniemulsion polymerization

Modeling the equilibrium morphology of nanodroplets in the presence of nanofillers

“…After the polymerization, the morphology should not change substantially, because the viscosity within the droplet might increase fast, even at the beginning of the reaction, reducing the mobility of the nanofiller and avoiding its migration. The morphologies predicted by these simulations agree with the experimentally observed morphology for hybrid polysytyrene nanoparticles containing ZnO with different levels of hydrophobization [18].…”

Encapsulation of Inorganic Nanoparticles by Miniemulsion Polymerization

“…Fluorescent CdS/ZnS-coated CdSe or CdS quantum dots could be functionalized with a trialkylphosphine modified with an atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) initiator (i.e., 2-chloropropionate) [23], trioctylphosphine oxide (TOPO) [24,25], and 4-mercaptovinylbenzene [25] to be dispersed and stabilized in the organic phase previous to carry out the miniemulsion process. Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles were coated with 3-(trimethoxysilyl)propylmethacrylate (TPM) [26] and 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTS) [27] before dispersing them in styrene and styrene/n-butylacrylate, respectively. Silver (Ag) nanoparticles were made hydrophobic by dodecanethiol [28], and nano-alumina (A1 2 0 3 ) with oleic acid (OA) [29].…”

Synthesis of latex based antibacterial acrylate polymer/nanosilver via in situ miniemulsion polymerization

“…[36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46] Homogenization process for the miniemulsions by sonication was firstly described in 1979. 47 Tamai et al 48 synthesized polystyrene particles incorporating poly(methylphenylsilane) (PS/PMPS) by the miniemulsion polymerization.…”