Continuous Production of Functionalized Polymer Particles Employing the Phase Separation in Polymer Blend Films

✍ Scribed by ChooJin Park; Dong Choon Hyun; Min-Cheol Lim; Su-Jeong Kim; Young-Rok Kim; Hyun-Jong Paik; Unyong Jeong

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 454 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1336
• DOI: 10.1002/marc.201100199

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This study reports a continuous prepartion of spherical or hemispherical polymer particles simply utilizing the phase separation in polymer blend films during the coating process. We took an advantage of the strong phase separation between a water‐soluble crystalline polymer as a matrix and hydrophobic polymers as minor components. We demonstrated the prepartion of water‐soluble polystyrene (PS) particles, nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA)‐functionalized PS particles for protein separation, and semiconducting poly(3‐hexylthiophene) (P3HT) particles. The sizes of the particles could be controlled by adjusting the film thickness and weight fraction of the minor component polymers in the blend film. It provides a simple facile way to prepare polymer particles in a continous process. magnified image