• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.341-345
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• 2010

Effects of modification of silver nanoparticles on the polymerization rate and morphology of poly(methyl methacrylate)(PMMA)/silver microspheres prepared by suspension polymerization of MMA were investigated. The silver nanoparticles and their surface hydrophilicity played an important role in the polymerization rate and the morphology of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)/silver microspheres. The polymerization rate increased slightly with modified silver nanoparticles. PMMA/silver microspheres with conversion up to 85% were obtained in spite of the low polymerization temperature. Due to the change of hydrophilicity of silver nanoparticles, different appearances of the microspheres having golf ball-like convex surfaces or concave surfaces were observed. As the hydrophilicity of silver was decreased, stable nanocomposites were prepared.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.212-217
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• 2010

In this study, suspension polymerized toners were prepared by using poly(vinyl alcohol)(PVA) as an organic suspending agent. Styrene and butylacrylate monomers were used simultaneously with carbon black to prepare microspherical polymerized toners with a narrow-particle size distribution. Preliminary particles without carbon black were polymerized first to optimize suspension polymerization conditions. The preliminary particles were prepared at various polymerization conditions and their characteristics were compared to each other to determine an optimized polymerization condition. The black polymerized toner prepared at the optimized polymerization condition showed reasonable particle size and shape, and good thermal and printing characteristics by showing its glass transition temperature at $53.6^{\circ}C$.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.460-467
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• 2001

Inverse suspension polymerization of acrylamide (AM) in cyclohexane was carried out to study the effects of concentrations of sorbitan ester (Span) stabilizers and 2,2'-azobis (2-methyl propionamidine) dihydrochloride (AIBA) initiator, amount of monomer, shaking speed, and polymerization temperature on the particle size of the resulting poly (acrylamide) (PAM) beads and their molecular weights. It was found that the particle diameter. in general, decreased with increasing concentration of stabilizer, shaking speed, and water content in the aqueous phase, and with decreasing concentration of initiator and polymerization temperature. The average molecular weight of the resulting PAM beads was also found to increase with increasing concentrations of monomer and stabilizer, and also with decreasing concentration of initiator, polymerization temperature, and water content in the aqueous phase. In this study, PAM beads ranging 2 ~ 50 ${\mu}$m in diameter, with 8000000 ~ 12000000 in the weight average molecular weight were successfully prepared in almost 100% conversion.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.390-394
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• 2011

Effects of silver nanoparticles on the polymerization rate and morphology of poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc)/silver microspheres prepared by suspension polymerization of VAc were investigated. Scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and atomic absorption spectrometry were used to characterize the morphology and properties of the PVAc/silver microspheres. Due to the change of hydrophilicity of silver nanoparticles, appearance of the microspheres having golf ball-like convave surfaces was observed. Under controlled concentration of surfactant, PVAc/silver microspheres with various hollow structures were synthesized. In the case of silver nanoparticles modified by surfactant, the polymerization rate increased slightly. PVAc/silver microspheres with a conversion up to 80% were prepared via suspension polymerization.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.50 no.5
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• pp.923-928
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• 2012

Optimizing a water-phase suspending system is very important to manufacture high-quality suspension polymerized toners. Therefore, in this study, the effects of the molar ratio of calcium hydroxide ($CaOH_2$)/phosphoric acid ($H_3PO_4$)(Ca/P), which were used as inorganic suspending agents, and pH of the water-phase on the characteristics of styrene-based suspension polymerized toners were mainly investigated. At first, the water-phase was fixed to neutral condition (pH=7.5) and Ca/P molar ratio was changed from 1.5:1 to 1.76:1. As a result, an ideal calcium phosphate (hydroxyapatite) was prepared at the Ca/P molar ratio of 1.73:1 and polymerized toners prepared at this condition showed good particle size distribution, circularity and charging characteristic. Based on this result, Ca/P molar ratio was fixed to 1.73:1 and pH of the water-phase was changed to weak acidic (pH=5.5) and weak basic (pH=9.5) conditions. As a result, polymerized toners prepared under the weak acidic condition showed very good particle size distribution, circularity and charging characteristic along with excellent printing quality. High-quality suspension polymerized toners could be prepared via optimizing Ca/P molar ratio and pH of the water-phase.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.279-284
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• 2013

The phenolic beads in macrosize range were obtained by suspension polymerization at $98^{\circ}C$ from phenol and formaldehyde in the presence of basic catalyst with a phenol to formaldehyde (P/F) range of 1:1~1:4, and they were carbonized to spherical carbon beads under nitrogen at $700^{\circ}C$. Thermal analysis on spherical phenolic beads obtained by suspension polymerization showed that the postcuring process is essential. In order to optimize the suspension polymerization, the effects of the P/F molar ratio, the pH of catalyst, and the molecular weight of stabilizer on the size distribution and yield of spherical phenol beads were examined separatively. The particle size was increased whereas the yield was decreased with P/F molar ratio. The increasing basicity of catalyst made the particle size to increase, while the molecular weight of stabilizer had more effect on the yield rather than on the particle size distribution. The thermal stability of the spherical phenolic beads obtained through postcure was also examined by TGA. The phenol beads of high P/F ratio still showed the weight loss at $220^{\circ}C$ even after postcure due to the high possibility of dibenzyl ether, while those of low P/F ratio showed the steady decrease in weight during $220^{\circ}C$ to $400^{\circ}C$, which showed that the optimal P/F ratio was 1:2.

• Clean Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.62-66
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• 2006

Poly($\small{L}$-Lactide)(PLLA) was prepared by a ring-opening polymerization of $\small{L}$-Lactide with various polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS) based copolymers as a stabilizer in supercritical carbon dioxide($scCO_2$). The block copolymeric stabilizers were synthesized by group transfer polymerization (GTP) by using PDMS macroinitiator. PLLA was found to be produced with fairly low molecular weight distribution as confirmed by gel permeation chromatography(GPC) analysis. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) results showed that sub-micron size Poly($\small{L}$-lactide)(PLLA) particles were formed by suspension polymerization.

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.211-214
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• 2001

최근 입자를 이용한 색전술의 재료로서 광범위하게 사용되는 폴리비닐알코올(poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA)) 입자는 전형적인 혼성배열(atactic)이다[1]. 제조된 PVA 입자가 고내구성 및 혈액내에서 안정성을 나타내기 위해서는 중합된 PVA 입자의 분자량 뿐만 아니라 교대배열성(syndiotacticity)도 커야 한다. 교대배열기(sydiotactic group)를 풍부하게 함유하고 있는 고분자량의 PVA를 제조하기 위해서는 고분자량의 교대배열성 전구체가 얻어지도록 입체장애를 일으키는 에스테르기를 보유하고 있는 단량체를 사용하거나 중합방법을 개선하는 것이 필요하다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.474-477
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• 2010

최근 디지털 장비의 발전에 발맞추어 고속, 고화질의 컬러 문서가 요구됨에 따라 레이저 프린터의 보급 또한 급속도로 성장하고 있는 실정이다. 토너는 고속, 고화질의 컬러 문서 인쇄에 가장 중요한 역할을 하는 것으로, 크게 분쇄법과 중합법에 의해 제조 되고 있다. 그러나 그 중 분쇄법 토너는 근본적으로 해결되지 않는 문제점들이 있다. 즉, 중합된 수지를 사용함으로 인한 단가상승과 수지와 내첨제를 용융혼합하는 과정에서의 분산의 한계성, 그리고 인쇄 품질의 좋지 않은 것이 그 대표적인 예이다. 이에 본 실험에서는 고속, 고화질의 컬러 프린터에 적합한 중합법에 의한 토너 제조시 하이드록시아파타이트가 토너 제조에 미치는 영향에 대해서 연구하였다. Ca/P의 몰비에 따라 제조된 하이드록시아파타이트가 토너의 입자형성에 크게 영향을 주었으며, 이에 따라 토너의 물성에도 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 pH에 따라서도 토너중합에 많은 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 토너 입자 형성에 적절한 Ca/P의 몰비 및 pH가 존재 하며, 이를 최적으로 조절하면 양질의 토너를 제조 할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.13-18
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• 2022

Polyacrylonitrile was synthesized through suspension polymerization and then sieved to obtain spherical beads with a size of 200~510 ㎛. PAN was copolymerized with 2 mol% MMA monomer which is known to promote cyclization and crosslinking of nitrile group. The resonance cyclization reaction of the nitrile group in the synthesized PAN beads was observed near 170℃ with thermal analysis and FT-IR. The reaction conversion of the nitrile group in spherical beads was 23% during heat treatment, which was lower than that of the well-oriented PAN fiber used as a precursor of carbon fiber. This is because the stereo-regularity of molecular chains in the form of a random coil (spherical bead) is much lower than that of PAN fiber. It was confirmed that the compressive strength of the spherical PAN bead was greatly improved through the resonance cyclization and shrinkage according to the heat treatment, and it was also observed that the pores in PAN beads were formed after the heat treatment.