This volume provides a modern overview of the principles and practice of emulsion polymerization, a topic of both academic and industrial importance. The book offers the reader the mathematical, physical and technical tools necessary to understand the mechanisms and physical chemistry currently being used in the field. Researchers and applied scientists should be able to use this information to carry out their own investigations. This book contains exercises, with model answers, which makes it suitable for use as the basis for a graduate course. This feature should also aid researchers in the pure and applied aspects of the area to employ the methods developed in the text to investigate their own systems of interest.
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Kinetic and thermodynamic processes: free-radical polymerization reactions; initiation; propagation; bimolecular termination; chain transfer; rates in copolymerizations; cross-linking reactions; the locus of polymerization in emulsion systems; the rate of an emulsion polymerization; the three intervals of emulsion polymerization; ab initio and seeded systems for mechanistic studies; monomer concentration in latex particles; phase-transfer events in emulsion polymerizations; inhomogeneities in latex particles; scope and methods for mechanistic investigation. Theory of the kinetics of particle growth: overview; the simple zero-one system; general description of zero-one systems; the Smith-Ewart equation; chain-length-dependent kinetics - the pseudo-Bulk equation; chain-length-dependent compartmentalized systems; summary and roadmap for modelling particle growth; conclusions. Rate kinetics of particle growth - applications and mechanistic conclusions: rate coefficients and mechanism for entry; rate coefficients and mechanisms for exit; termination; conclusions. Particle size distributions: introduction; measurement of PSDs; the evolution equations for the PSD; solutions of the PSD evolution equations; obtaining kinetic data from the PSD; conclusions. Molecular weight distributions: the importance of molecular weight in polymer systems; definitions of molecular weight distributions and averages; rate parameters determining MWD; modelling the MWD; sample calculation of MWDs; experimental measurement of MWDs; some experimental results; conclusions. Particle formation: introduction; particle formation below the CMC; particle formation above the CMC; some important influences on nucleation; conclusions.
