Cationic Microemulsion Polymerization of Alkyl Acrylates英文文献资料.docVIP

Materials Sciences and Applications, 2010, 1, 292-300 doi:10.4236/msa.2010.15043 Published Online November 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/msa) Cationic Microemulsion Polymerization of Alkyl Acrylates Issa Katime , Jesús Arellano , Eduardo Mendizábal , Jorge Flores 1 2 3 3 1 Grupo de Nuevos Materiales y Espectroscopia Supramolecular, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Bilbao, Espa?a; Departamento 2 3 de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México; Departamento de Química, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. Email: issa.katime@ehu.es Received September 13 , 2010; revised October 26 , 2010; accepted October 30 , 2010. th th th ABSTRACT Here we present the polymerization of n-butyl acrylate (BA), ethyl acrylate (EA) and methyl acrylate (MA) in tri-component microemulsions, using a cationic surfactant such as dodecyl trimetyl ammonium bromide in water, as a function of temperature, initiator type and, monomer and initiator concentration. The final latexes are transparent and blue color, with particle size ranging between 20 and 60 nm determined by quasielastic light scattering (QLD) and SEC 6 molar masses of the order of 10 g/mol. Reaction times are short and reaction rates are high with final conversions be- tween 70 and 98% depending on the monomer and the reaction conditions. Keywords: Microemulsion Polymerization, Particle Size, Nanoparticles, Quasielastic Light Scattering, Surfactant 1. Introduction increase in the initiator decomposition rate. Final conver- Microemulsion polymerization was born as an alternative process for the production of polymeric latexes with unique particle size,