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New Insights on surfactant-free styrene emulsion polymerization in The presence of sodium styrene sulfonate

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The surfactant-free styrene emulsion polymerization (EP) in the presence of sodium styrene sulfonate (NaSS) was experimentally studied. It was observed that as the NaSS content is higher the number of particles (N) and the breath of the particle size distributions increases. Although EP’s were performed without added surfactant, the N values obtained in these cases reach values typical of EP’s performed in the presence of micelles. These experimental findings are explained in terms of the role of the oligomers formed in the aqueous phase and the feasibility that in situ micellization and micellar nucleation were occurring in these systems is also discussed. The hypothesis proposed in this work contrasts with the ones reported in the literature.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT-Mexico) for supporting this project (grant 182504). Authors wishes to thanks to Dr. Esmeralda Saucedo Salazar and Mrs. Maria Luisa Lopez Quintanilla from Centro de Investigación en Química Aplicada (CIQA) for the electronic microscope analysis.

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  4. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, Blvd. V. Carranza e Ing. José Cárdenas V, C.P. 25280, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico

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Farias-Cepeda, L., Herrera-Ordonez, J., Estevez, M. et al. New Insights on surfactant-free styrene emulsion polymerization in The presence of sodium styrene sulfonate. Colloid Polym Sci 294, 1571–1576 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-016-3917-4

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