Swelling Deswelling Behavior of PS-PNIPAAM Copolymer Particles and PNIPAAM Brushes Grafted from Polystyrene Particles & Monoliths
✍ Scribed by Vikas Mittal; Nadejda B. Matsko; Alessandro Butté; Massimo Morbidelli
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 382 KB
- Volume
- 293
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1438-7492
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Two sets of emulsion particles have been synthesized. In the first set, surfactant free emulsion was used to directly synthesize PS‐PNIPAAM copolymer particles. In the second set, polystyrene particles with an ATRP initiator shell were first synthesized and subsequently grafted with PNIPAAM brushes. Swelling/deswelling behavior of both sets of particles was studied with respect to temperature and time. Monoliths with two different porosities were also formed by grafting and crosslinking of PNIPAAM chains on the aggregated particles and characterized. In all cases, swelling kinetics is sufficiently fast to use these supports for separation driven by temperature changes only. However, hindrance and cross‐linking is sensibly reducing the material performance.
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