Organic/inorganic nano-composite particles are excellent composite materials with high performance in many fields.Fission/fusion process of mini-emulsion polymerization is a novel method to produce this kind of composite material.Based on thermodynamics,basic theory,i.e.minimum interface free energy,was used to derive interface Gibbs free energy equations of equilibrium morphology of organic/inorganic nano-composite particles produced by fission/fusion mini-emulsion process.Several equilibrium morphologies of nano-composite particles i.e.core-shell,hemisphere,sandwich and separate morphologies,were considered.The effect of monomer conversion on nano-composite particles equilibrium morphology was investigated,which expanded the application range of these equations.In carbon/(poly)styrene/water system,core-shell particles had lowest Gibbs free energy when volume ratio of inorganic particles was less than 0.2.With increasing monomer conversion,Gibbs free energy of core-shell,hemisphere and sandwich particles decreased slightly,which could be due to smaller interface tension between polystyrene/water than styrene/water in this system.
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