Properties of polystyrene/nano-SiO 2 composite microspheres prepared by pickering emulsion polymerization

Weihong Zhang, Xiaodong Fan, Wei Tian, Yi Huang

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Abstract

Stable Pickering emulsion was fabricated using amphiphilic nano-SiO 2 particles as stabilizer. Then, two kinds of polystyrene/nano-SiO 2 (PS/SiO 2) composite microspheres, which had different size and different morphology, were synthesized with oil-soluble azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) and water-soluble ammonium persulfate (APS) as initiator respectively. The possible mechanisms of Pickering emulsion polymerization initiated by different initiator were discussed. The product was characterized by means of FT-IR, multi angle laser light scattering photometer (GPC-MALLS), TGA and DSC. When AIBN was used as the initiator, the diameters of the microspheres were micron-sized (0.5 μm~2.0 μm). While the sub-micron-sized (0.1 μm~0.5 μm) microspheres were obtained by using APS as the initiator. And the weight-average molecular weight (M̄ w) of two kinds of polymer is 4.780×10 4 g/mol and 3.411×10 5 g/mol, respectively. The results of TGA and DSC indicated that the thermal properties of composite were elevated duo to the existence of nano-SiO 2.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)14-17+21
JournalGaofenzi Cailiao Kexue Yu Gongcheng/Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering
Volume28
Issue number8
StatePublished - Aug 2012

Keywords

  • Composite microsphere
  • Nano-SiO
  • Pickering emulsion polymerization
  • Polystyrene

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