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Peculiar Behaviour of Methyl Methacrylate (MMA) Emulsion Polymerization-induced Self-assembly (PISA) Mediated by RAFT Using Poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA) Macromolecular Chain Transfer Agent.
Macromolecular Rapid Communications 2024 May 3
Reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) emulsion polymerization of methyl methacrylate (MMA) is successfully performed in water in the presence of a poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA) macromolecular chain transfer agent (macroCTA) leading to the formation of self-stabilized PMAA-b-PMMA amphiphilic block copolymer particles. At pH = 3.7, the reactions are well-controlled with narrow molar mass distributions. Increasing the initial pH, particularly above 5.6, results in a partial loss of reactivity of the PMAA macroCTA. The effect of the degree of polymerization (DPn ) of the PMMA block, the solids content, the nature of the hydrophobic segment and the pH on the morphology of the obtained diblock copolymer particles is then investigated. Worm-like micelles are formed for a DPn of PMMA of 20 (PMMA20 ), while "onion-like" particles and spherical vesicles are obtained for PMMA30 and PMMA50 , respectively. In contrast, spherical particles are obtained for the DPn s higher than 150. This unusual evolution of particle morphologies upon increasing the DPn of the PMMA block seems to be related to hydrogen bonds between hydrophilic MAA and hydrophobic MMA units. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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