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Published on: February 7, 2017
Surface ATRP of hydrophilic monomers from ultrafine aqueous silica sols using anionic polyelectrolytic
Cong-Duan Vo1, Andreas Schmid, Steven P Armes
1Dainton Building, Department of Chemistry, The University of Sheffield, Brook Hill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S3 7HF, UK. c.vo@sheffield.ac.uk
Abstract:
A convenient two-step route was developed to prepare new anionic ATRP macroinitiators from near-monodisperse poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) precursors by partial esterification with 2-bromoisobutyryl bromide, followed by esterification of the remaining hydroxyl groups using excess 2-sulfobenzoic acid cyclic anhydride. These new macroinitiators can be electrostatically adsorbed onto ultrafine cationic Ludox CL silica sols; subsequent surface polymerization of various hydrophilic monomers in aqueous solution at room temperature afforded a range of polymer-grafted ultrafine silica sols. The resulting sterically stabilized particles were characterized by dynamic light scattering, transmission electron microscopy, aqueous electrophoresis, FTIR spectroscopy, and elemental microanalyses.
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