ZHANG Jianmin, SUN Xiuguo, WANG Caihui, et al. Synthesis and kinetics study of TiO2/P(MMA-BA-MAA) composite particles by emulsion polymerization[J]. CIESC Journal, 2009, (10): 2640-2649.
ZHANG Jianmin, SUN Xiuguo, WANG Caihui, et al. Synthesis and kinetics study of TiO2/P(MMA-BA-MAA) composite particles by emulsion polymerization[J]. CIESC Journal, 2009, (10): 2640-2649.DOI:
The TiO2/methyl-methacrylate-butyl acrylate-methacrylic acid copolymer [TiO2/P(MMA-BA-MAA)]composite particles were synthesized by emulsion polymerization.The emulsifier concentration and molar concentration ratios of monomers exhibited a great influence on the morphology of the composite particles.The effects of operation variables
such as emulsifier concentration
initiator concentration
molar concentration ratios of monomers
co-emulsifier concentration
polymerization temperature on the kinetic features were also investigatedThe TEM images
FTIR spectra and TG analysis indicated that the composite particles of TiO2/P(MMA-BA-MAA) with smooth surface
good dispersibility and spherical core-shell structure were obtained.The kinetics data showed that under the conditions studied the rate equation for the whole reaction of coating polymerization was educed
and the apparent activation energy was 163.0 kJ.mol-1
which suggested that the possible reaction mechanism could be “TiO2/surfactant” micelle nucleation and homogeneous coagulative nucleation mechanism of the emulsion polymerization of MMA-BA-MAA.Thermal analysis showed that the thermal stability of composite particles was higher than that of copolymer particles formed under the same conditions.Compared with nano-TiO2
the measurements of ζ-potential and contact angles of composite particles indicated that the hydrophilicity of composite particles decreased and the hydrophobicity increased.