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Facile synthesis of cauliflower-like hydrophobically modified polyacrylamide nanospheres by aerosol-photopolymerization
, Article European Polymer Journal ; Volume 83 , 2016 , Pages 323-336 ; 00143057 (ISSN) ; Ramazani, S. A. A ; Ahadian, M. M ; Tamsilian, Y ; Weber, A. P ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier Ltd
2016
Abstract
Amphiphilic copolymers consist of hydrophilic and hydrophobic monomer units have attracted great technological attention recently, owing to their unique properties and their ability to stabilize various interfaces in aqueous systems. This paper presents a novel and facile approach to produce spherical polyacrylamide, polystyrene and hydrophobically modified polyacrylamide (HM-PAM), as one of the most important type of amphiphilic copolymers, using a continuous aerosol-photopolymerization for the first time. To this end, the monomer droplets were generated by an atomizer, then photopolymerization was initiated ‘‘in flight’’ by ultraviolet (UV) irradiation of the aerosol monomer droplets...