Aqueous solutions of various types honey as a source reducing sugars – glucose and fructose, were used to accelerate or control activators regeneration by electron transfer atom radical polymerization (ARGET ATRP) in homogeneous heterogeneous environment. The aqueous alcoholic-aqueous solution was applied for the hydrophilic methacrylates i.e. 2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA), glyci...

Photoinitiated thiol–ene polymerization was performed in bulk and miniemulsion. We show that the compartmentalization of reaction inside nanodroplets led to faster kinetics yielded polymers with higher molecular weight.

Miniemulsion polymerization technique has been used extensively for preparing small sized uniform particles of polymers, core-shell polymer particles, hybrid particles and encapsulation of liquid core. The technique has achieved limited success in the area of uniform core shell structure with liquid as core, as it requires matching of strict thermodynamic and kinetic factors. The interfacial te...

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) show promise for enhancing properties of waterborne latexes and coatings. Miniemulsion polymerization is a promising route to obtaining well-controlled latex distributions sufficient encapsulate CNCs in the monomer phase. Here, we demonstrate first miniemulsion resulting encapsulation that incorporates costabilizer, water soluble initiator, comonomer mixtures, aspe...

The preparation of hybrid hollow capsules consisting of a cross-linked polymer shell and a coating of graphene oxide (GO) is demonstrated. The capsules are prepared by Pickering miniemulsion polymerization, exploiting the surface activity of GO for its use as a colloidal surfactant. This approach represents a simple and convenient route towards hollow carbon nanostructures for a variety of appl...

In this paper we report on the preparation of calix[8]arene functionalized polyglycerol nanogels by miniemulsion polymerization. The gel macromonomers were prepared by anionic ring-opening multibranching polymerization of glycidol using calix[8]arene as initiator. 1,1 ,3,3,3 ,3 -hexamethyl-2,2 -indotricarbocyanine iodide (HITC) red fluorescent dye was used as a guest molecule. Photobleaching up...

The cover designed by the Chmielarz Research Group refers to wine-based miniemulsion used as a polymerization medium for synthesis of non water-miscible polymethacrylates first time. Various types wines were presented antioxidant-rich solvents, which enabled controlled hydrophobic (co)polymers. Dry wine was characterized best candidate double-controlled winebased ATRP. DOI: 10.1002/app.53367