@article{SchlappaBresselReichetal.2023,
  author    = {Schlappa, Stephanie and Bressel, Lena and Reich, Oliver and M{\"u}nzberg, Marvin},
  title     = {Advanced particle size analysis in high-solid-content polymer dispersions using photon density wave spectroscopy},
  series = {Polymers},
  volume    = {15},
  journal   = {Polymers},
  number    = {15},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  address   = {Basel},
  issn      = {2073-4360},
  doi       = {10.3390/polym15153181},
  pages     = {17},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {High-solid-content polystyrene and polyvinyl acetate dispersions of polymer particles with a 50 nm to 500 nm mean particle diameter and 12-55\% (w/w) solid content have been produced via emulsion polymerization and characterized regarding their optical and physical properties. Both systems have been analyzed with common particle-size-measuring techniques like dynamic light scattering (DLS) and static light scattering (SLS) and compared to inline particle size distribution (PSD) measurements via photon density wave (PDW) spectroscopy in undiluted samples. It is shown that particle size measurements of undiluted polystyrene dispersions are in good agreement between analysis methods. However, for polyvinyl acetate particles, size determination is challenging due to bound water in the produced polymer. For the first time, water-swelling factors were determined via an iterative approach of PDW spectroscopy error (X-2) minimization. It is shown that water-swollen particles can be analyzed in high-solid-content solutions and their physical properties can be assumed to determine the refractive index, density, and volume fraction in dispersion. It was found that assumed water swelling improved the reduced scattering coefficient fit by PDW spectroscopy by up to ten times and particle size determination was refined and enabled. Particle size analysis of the water-swollen particles agreed well with offline-based state-of-the-art techniques.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{YuantenBrummelhuisJungingeretal.2011,
  author    = {Yuan, Jiayin and ten Brummelhuis, Niels and Junginger, Mathias and Xie, Zailai and Lu, Yan and Taubert, Andreas and Schlaad, Helmut},
  title     = {Diversified applications of chemically modified 1,2-Polybutadiene},
  series = {Macromolecular rapid communications},
  volume    = {32},
  journal   = {Macromolecular rapid communications},
  number    = {15},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Malden},
  issn      = {1022-1336},
  doi       = {10.1002/marc.201100254},
  pages     = {1157 -- 1162},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Commercially available 1,2-PB was transformed into a well-defined reactive intermediate by quantitative bromination. The brominated polymer was used as a polyfunctional macroinitiator for the cationic ring-opening polymerization of 2-ethyl-2-oxazoline to yield a water-soluble brush polymer. Nucleophilic substitution of bromide by 1-methyl imidazole resulted in the formation of polyelectrolyte copolymers consisting of mixed units of imidazolium, bromo, and double bond. These copolymers, which were soluble in water without forming aggregates, were used as stabilizers in the heterophase polymerization of styrene and were also studied for their ionic conducting properties.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{WeberTierschUnterlassetal.2011,
  author    = {Weber, Nancy and Tiersch, Brigitte and Unterlass, Miriam M. and Heilig, Anneliese and Tauer, Klaus},
  title     = {"Schizomorphic" Emulsion Copolymerization Particles},
  series = {Macromolecular rapid communications},
  volume    = {32},
  journal   = {Macromolecular rapid communications},
  number    = {23},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Malden},
  issn      = {1022-1336},
  doi       = {10.1002/marc.201100491},
  pages     = {1925 -- 1929},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Cryo-electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and light microscopy investigations provide experimental evidence that amphiphilic emulsion copolymerization particles change their morphology in dependence on concentration. The shape of the particles is spherical at solids content above 1\%, but it changes to rod-like, ring-like, and web-like structures at lower concentrations. In addition, the shape and morphology of these particles at low concentrations are not fixed but very flexible and vary with time between spheres, flexible pearlnecklace structures, and stretched rods.},
  language  = {en}
}