Shedding light on the different behavior of ionic and nonionic surfactants in emulsion polymerization: from atomistic simulations to experimental observations-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Shedding light on the different behavior of ionic and nonionic surfactants in emulsion polymerization: from atomistic simulations to experimental observations

Published:2017 Issue:47 Volume:19 Page:31692-31705
ISSN:1463-9076
Container-title:Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Author:

Magi Meconi Giulia¹²³⁴⁵,Ballard Nicholas¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Asua José M.¹²³⁴⁵,Zangi Ronen⁶³⁴⁵⁷^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. POLYMAT & Departamento de Química Aplicada

2. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas

3. University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU

4. Donostia-San Sebastián

5. Spain

6. POLYMAT & Departamento de Química Orgánica I

7. IKERBASQUE

Abstract

We show that above a critical concentration at a water/hydrophobic interface, nonionic surfactants can absorb entirely into the organic phase, explaining the unusual behavior of emulsion polymerization with these surfactants.

Funder

Eusko Jaurlaritza

Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2017/CP/C7CP05206E

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