caa a22 4500 47576451X CHVBK 20180406123601.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s003960050521 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s003960050521 Effect of short-chain alcohols on the oil-in-water microemulsion polymerization of styrene [Elektronische Daten] [C. S. Chern, C. W. Liu] The influence of short-chain alcohols, 1-butanol (C4OH), 2-pentanol (C5OH) and 1-hexanol (C6OH), on the formation of oil-in-water styrene microemulsions and the subsequent free-radical polymerization was studied. Sodium dodecyl sulfate was used as the surfactant. The overall performance of C4OH as the cosurfactant is quite different from C5OH and C6OH. The range of the microemulsion region in decreasing order is C4OH > C5OH > C6OH. The primary parameters selected for the microemulsion polymerization study were the concentrations of cosurfactant and styrene. Only a small fraction of microemulsion droplets initially present in the reaction system can be successfully transformed into latex particles and the remaining droplets serve as a reservoir to supply the growing particles with monomer. Limited flocculation of latex particles also occurs during polymerization and the degree of flocculation is most significant for the C4OH system. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Key words Oil-in-water microemulsion polymerization nationallicence Styrene nationallicence Sodium dodecyl sulfate nationallicence Short-chain alcohols nationallicence Chern C. S. Department of Chemical Engineering National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 43 Keelung Road, Section 4 Taipei 106, Taiwan Fax: +886-2-27376644 e-mail: chern@ch.ntust.edu.tw, TW aut Liu C. W. Department of Chemical Engineering National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 43 Keelung Road, Section 4 Taipei 106, Taiwan Fax: +886-2-27376644 e-mail: chern@ch.ntust.edu.tw, TW aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s003960050521 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s003960050521 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chern C. S. Department of Chemical Engineering National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 43 Keelung Road, Section 4 Taipei 106, Taiwan Fax: +886-2-27376644 e-mail: chern@ch.ntust.edu.tw, TW aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Liu C. W. Department of Chemical Engineering National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 43 Keelung Road, Section 4 Taipei 106, Taiwan Fax: +886-2-27376644 e-mail: chern@ch.ntust.edu.tw, TW aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer