High T-g Microspheres by Dispersion Copolymerization of N-Phenylmaleimide with Styrenic or Alkyl Vinyl Ether Monomers

作者：Krishnamoorthy Swapna; Haria Mehul; Fortier McGill Blythe E; Mazumder M A Jafar; Robinson Erica I; Xia Yan; Burke Nicholas A D; Stoever Harald D H

来源：Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry , 2011, 49(1): 192-202.

DOI：10.1002/pola.24440

• copolymerization
• dispersions
• glass transition
• high T-g microspheres
• polymer particles

Solution and dispersion copolymerizations of N-phenylmaleimide (PMI) with either styrenics or alkyl vinyl ethers (AVEs), systems with a tendency to give alternating polymers, were investigated with the goal of producing high glass transition particles. Equimolar solution copolymerization of PMI with styrenics gave alternating copolymers, whereas AVEs gave PMI-rich copolymers (similar to 65:35) except for t-butyl vinyl ether, which gave copolymers with only a slight excess of PMI. These copolymers had glass transition temperatures (T(g)s) ranging from 115 to 225 degrees C depending on comonomer(s). Dispersion copolymerization in ethanol-based solvents in the presence of poly(vinylpyrrolidone) as steric stabilizer led to narrow-disperse microspheres for many copolymers studied. Dispersion copolymeriations of PMI with styrenics required good cosolvents such as acetonitrile or methyl ethyl ketone as plasticizers during particle initiation and growth. Dispersion copolymerizations generally resulted in copolymer particles with compositions and T(g)s very similar to those of the corresponding copolymers formed by solution polymerization, with the exception of t-butyl vinyl ether (tBVE), which now behaved like the other AVEs. Dispersion terpolymerizations of PMI (50 mol %) with different ratios of either n-butylstyrene and t-butylstyrene or n-butyl vinyl ether and tBVE led to polymer particles with T(g)s that depended on the ratio of the two butyl monomers.

• 出版日期2011-1-1
• 单位McGill