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One-step template-free synthesis of monoporous polymer microspheres with uniform sizes via microwave-mediated
Ming-Qiang Zhu1, Gan-Chao Chen, Yun-Mei Li
1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, PR China. mqzhu@hust.edu.cn
Abstract:
One-step facile synthesis of monoporous polymer microspheres via microwave-controlled dispersion polymerization is introduced. This template-free method employing the dispersion polymerization of styrene under microwave irradiation induces directly the formation of uniform monoporous polymer microspheres, with controllable morphologies and sizes, which can be tuned by simply adjusting parameters for the synthesis. A comparison to conventional heating indicates that microwave irradiation plays a vital role in the formation of this novel morphology.
