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Synthesis, Characterization And Application Of Acrylic Colloidal Unimolecular Polymer (Cup), Ameya Manohar Natu
Synthesis, Characterization And Application Of Acrylic Colloidal Unimolecular Polymer (Cup), Ameya Manohar Natu
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"Colloidal Unimolecular Polymer (CUP) particles were prepared by the process of water reduction on amphiphilic acrylic copolymers prepared via free radical polymerization technique. The formation of CUP particles was driven by the polymer-polymer interaction being greater than the polymer-solvent interaction and entropically favored by release of the water. It was demonstrated by Dynamic Light Scattering technique that CUP particles based on copolymers below 13,000 MW were unstable and the particles aggregated to a higher particle size. For the polymers with molecular weight (MW) above 13,000, a good correlation between the theoretical and experimental CUP particle size was observed. The rheology …