Alkali solubility of carboxylated polymer emulsions

✍ Scribed by Soichi Muroi; Keizo Hosoi; Teruyuki Ishikawa

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1967
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 798 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-8995
• DOI: 10.1002/app.1967.070111013

✦ Synopsis

The solubility of carboxylated polymer emulsions in an aqueous alkaline solution was studied. The alkali solubility was shown to depend on the degree of carboxylation, the hydrophilic nature of the noncarboxylic main components, the degree of polymerization, the glass transition temperature, the chain configuration, and the dissolution temperature. Emulsions of the copolymer containing acrylic acid units showed considerably different dissolution behavior from those containing methacrylic acid units, possibly owing to the difference in the distribution state of carboxylic units inside the particle. It is deduced that methacrylic acid units are distributed more homogeneously inside the particle than acrylic acid units.