XIE Guiming, WANG Zhiyang, BAO Yongzhong. Effect of water phase additives on particle structure and expansion behavior of thermal-expandable polymer microspheres[J]. CIESC Journal, 2015, (11): 4682-4688.
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XIE Guiming, WANG Zhiyang, BAO Yongzhong. Effect of water phase additives on particle structure and expansion behavior of thermal-expandable polymer microspheres[J]. CIESC Journal, 2015, (11): 4682-4688.DOI: 10.11949/j.issn.0438-1157.20150489.
Effect of water phase additives on particle structure and expansion behavior of thermal-expandable polymer microspheres
Thermal-expandable polymer microspheres with core-shell structure were synthesized by suspension copolymerization of vinylidene chloride-acrylonitrile-methyl methacrylate (VDC-AN-MMA) in the presence of pentane as a foaming agent. The influence of water phase additives
such as sodium chloride
citric acid and potassium dichromate
on the particle structure and thermal expansion properties of polymer microspheres were investigated. The results showed that the additions of sodium chloride
citric acid and potassium dichromate could significantly reduce the number of un-expandable fine polymer particles. To be specific
when the loading of sodium chloride
citric acid and potassium dichromate was 4%
2.5%—5.0% and 0.05%—0.1% (based on monomers)
respectively
the prepared expandable microspheres exhibited narrow particle size distributions
regular morphology and good encapsulation of foaming agent by polymer. Few particles were unexpanded and the expansion of particles was uniform after the heat treating of the microspheres.