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Fabrication of Polymer Microspheres for Optical Resonator and Laser Applications
Published on: June 2, 2017
Synthesis of microsphere-loaded porous polymers by combining emulsion and dispersion polymerisations in supercritical
Cédric Boyère1, Alexandre F Léonard, Bruno Grignard
1Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM), Chemistry Department, University of Liege, Sart-Tilman, Allée de la Chimie 3, Bat B6a, B-4000 Liege, Belgium.
Abstract:
Highly porous materials were produced by acrylamide polymerisation templated by supercritical CO(2)-in-water emulsions using new fluorinated glycosurfactants. Properties of the resulting polymer scaffolds were tuned by performing dispersion polymerisations within their cavities filled with supercritical CO(2).

