Waterborne polyurethane-acrylic hybrid nanoparticles for application as pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs) were prepared by one-step miniemulsion polymerization. The addition of polyurethane to a standard waterborne acrylic formulation results in a large increase in the cohesive strength and hence a much higher shear holding time (greater than seven weeks at room temperature), which is a very ...

Phase change materials (PCMs) have great promise in many fields related to energy utilization and thermal management. However, PCMs face challenges large-scale applications due the intrinsic melting leakage, low conductivity poor photothermal conversion. Herein, nanoencapsulated phase (NanoPCMs) were fabricated by RAFT miniemulsion polymerization using quaternized poly(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl me...

This article focuses on the adequate surfactant concentration regime in which MMA droplets are stabilized sufficiently against coalescence during high-pressure homogenization but still no diffusion processes from droplets to micelles take place in the polymerization. Monomer miniemulsions with different surfactant concentrations were prepared with different energy inputs. Emulsions result that ...

Activators regenerated by electron transfer (ARGET) atom radical polymerization (ATRP)-based aqueous miniemulsion where the takes place in stabilized monomer droplets is described. In this work, we compared styrene, n-butyl methacrylate (nBMA) and tert-butyl (tBMA) investigated influence of their hydrophobicity on dispersity, molecular weight particle stability based partition coefficients (log...