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Application of chain transfer agents in the two-part dispersion polymerization of cross-linked polymer microspheres

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Cross-linked polymer microspheres have potential applications in many fields. Compared with seed polymerization, two-part dispersion polymerization is a very attractive method for preparing micron-sized cross-linked microspheres. However, the current dispersion polymerization would be adversely affected by the addition of more than 1 wt% of cross-linker at a time and even agglutination occurred. In this study, a facile method for the preparation of highly cross-linked microspheres by two-step dispersion polymerization of a chain transfer agent has been developed. The relationship between cross-linker and transfer has been studied in detail, and microspheres can be simultaneously maintained by adding the cross-linker ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA) at concentrations of up to 10%.

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This work was supported by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. 2019321), the Program of Jihua Laboratory (Grant No. X190161TD190), the Program of Suzhou biomedical and engineering institute (Grant No. E0550109 and No. Y851381105), and the Program of **an guoke medical engineering company (Grant No. Y95P031P05).

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  1. Beihua University, Jilin, 132013, People’s Republic of China

    Binbin Lv & Wei **a

  2. CAS Key Lab of Bio-Medical Diagnostics, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215163, People’s Republic of China

    Hui Wang, Liang He, Xueyan Nan, Tong Wang, Zhizhou Liu & Pengli Bai

  3. School of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, People’s Republic of China

    Hui Wang

  4. Jihua Laboratory, No.28 Island Ring South Road, Guicheng Street, Nanhai District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China

    Pengli Bai

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Lv, B., Wang, H., He, L. et al. Application of chain transfer agents in the two-part dispersion polymerization of cross-linked polymer microspheres. Colloid Polym Sci 299, 1305–1313 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-021-04843-4

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