Issue 11, 2011
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Nanoscale

One-step template-free synthesis of monoporous polymer microspheres with uniform sizes via microwave-mediated dispersion polymerization†

Ming-Qiang Zhu,*a   Gan-Chao Chen,bc   Yun-Mei Li,b   Jun-Bing Fan,b   Ming-Feng Zhua  and  Zhiyong Tang*c  

* Corresponding authors

a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R. China
E-mail: mqzhu@hust.edu.cn

b State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, P.R. China

c National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, P.R. China
E-mail: zytang@nanoctr.cn
Fax: +86 10-6265-6765

Abstract

One-step facile synthesis of monoporous polymer microspheres via microwave-controlled dispersion polymerization is introduced. This template-free method employing the dispersion polymerization of styrene under microwave irradiation induces directly the formation of uniform monoporous polymer microspheres, with controllable morphologies and sizes, which can be tuned by simply adjusting parameters for the synthesis. A comparison to conventional heating indicates that microwave irradiation plays a vital role in the formation of this novel morphology.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1NR10920K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
23 Jul 2011
Accepted
25 Aug 2011
First published
23 Sep 2011

Nanoscale, 2011,3, 4608-4612

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One-step template-free synthesis of monoporous polymer microspheres with uniform sizes via microwave-mediated dispersion polymerization

M. Zhu, G. Chen, Y. Li, J. Fan, M. Zhu and Z. Tang, Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 4608 DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10920K

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