• 文献标题:   Graphene functionalized with poly(vinyl alcohol) as a Pickering stabilizer for suspension polymerization of poly(methyl methacrylate)
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ERDENEDELGER G, DAO TD, JEONG HM
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, pickering stabilizer, polymer composite, coreshell, electrical property
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF COLLOID INTERFACE SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0021-9797 EI 1095-7103
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Ulsan
  • 被引频次:   6
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.jcis.2016.05.003
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Two types of thermally reduced graphenes (TRGs) having different lateral sizes were non-covalently modified with poly(vinyl alcohol) to endow water-dispersibility. The modified TRGs were examined as Pickering stabilizers for the suspension polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA). They were effective graphene-based Pickering stabilizers for the system with almost all of the polymerized composite microparticles having a regular spherical shape. The particle size of the composite microparticles was tunable by the size or the amount of modified TRG used as stabilizer. The almost perfect core-shell structure of the composite microparticles effectively enhanced the thermal stability of the core PMMA. In addition, when the core-shell microparticles were compression molded into a monolith, the obtained composite exhibited an ultra-low percolation threshold of electrical conductivity of around 0.04 vol%. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.