• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.51 no.5
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• pp.628-633
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• 2013

Carbon black was surface-modified to prepare styrene-based suspension polymerized toner with excellent carbon black dispersibility inside toner particles. Carbon black was oxidized first to introduce hydroxyl groups on the surfaces, then esterification between the hydroxyl groups and carboxyl groups of organic acids (oleic acid, palmitic acid, acrylic acid) was followed to obtain organically surface-modified carbon black. The surface-modification of carbon black was confirmed by FTIR. Apparent carbon black dispersibility in the monomer mixture of the binder resin was tested and the particle size of dispersed carbon black was measured by particle size analyzer. Optical micrographs showed that carbon black dispersibility inside toner particles was improved considerably when the carbon black surfacemodified with oleic acid was used. The polymerized toner prepared with the carbon black surface-modified with oleic acid showed ideal particle size and size distribution as a toner.

• 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 $53.6^{\circ}C$.

• 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.

• 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.