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The Effect of Camphorsulfonic Acid in TEMPO-Mediated Bulk and Dispersion Polymerization of Styrene

  • Oh Sejin (Department of Chemical Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Kim Gijung (Department of Chemical Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Ko Narae (Department of Chemical Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Shim Sang Eun (Department of Chemical Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Choe Soonja (Department of Chemical Engineering, Inha University)
  • Published : 2005.06.01
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Abstract

The TEMPO-mediated living free-radical bulk and dispersion polymerization of styrene in the presence of camphorsulfonic acid (CSA) are investigated. In the absence of TEMPO and CSA in the bulk polymerization, a conversion of $93\%$ is achieved within 6 hr of polymerization. When only TEMPO is involved in this polymerization, the pseudo-living free-radical polymerization is well achieved, however, the polymerization rate becomes quite slow. This retardation of the polymerization rate is solved by the addition of a low concentration of CSA. In the TEMPO-mediated dispersion polymerization in the presence of CSA, similar trends in the conversion, kinetics, and PDI are observed as those observed in the case of bulk polymerization. When only TEMPO is used in the dispersion polymerization, the resulting particle size becomes quite broad, due to the prolonged polymerization time. However, when a 1.0 molar ratio of CSA to TEMPO is added to the TEMPO-mediated dispersion polymerization, fairly mono-disperse PS microspheres having an average size of 5.83 $\mu$m and a CV of 3.4$\%$ are successfully obtained, due to the narrow molecular weight distribution of the intermediate oligomers and shortening of the polymerization time. This result indicates that the addition of CSA to the TEMPO-mediated bulk and the use of dispersion polymerization not only shortens the polymerization time, but also greatly improves the uniformity of the microspheres.

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