High internal phase emulsion with double emulsion morphology and their templated porous polymer systems

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• 作者：Lei Lei^a ; Qi Zhang^b ; Shuxian Shi^c ; ^{shisx@mail.buct.edu.cn" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Shiping Zhu^a ; ^{zhuship@mcmaster.ca" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：PDEA microgel ; Pickering emulsion ; High internal phase emulsion ; Double emulsion ; Porous polymer products
• 刊名：Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：1 December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：483
• 期：Complete
• 页码：232-240
• 全文大小：3841 K

文摘

This paper reports synthesis of the first high internal phase emulsion (HIPE) system with double emulsion (DE) morphology (HIPE-DE). HIPE is a highly concentrated but highly stable emulsion system, which has a dispersed/internal phase fraction over 74 vol%. DE represents an emulsion system that hierarchically encapsulates two immiscible phases. The combination of HIPE and DE provides an efficient method for fabrication of complex structures. In this work, HIPE-DE having a water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) morphology has been prepared for the first time via a simple one-step emulsification method with poly(2-(diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate) (PDEA) microgel particles as Pickering stabilizer. An oil phase fraction up to 90 vol% was achieved by optimizing the microgel concentration in aqueous phase. The mechanism of the DE formation has been elucidated. It was found that while PDEA microgels stabilized the oil droplets in water, small amount protonated DEA monomers acted as surfactant and formed water-containing micelles inside the oil droplets. It was demonstrated that the W/O/W HIPE-DE could be precisely converted into porous polymer structures. With styrene as the oil phase in W/O/W HIPE-DE, porous polystyrene particles were obtained upon polymerization. With dissolved acrylamide as the aqueous phase and toluene as the continuous phase, porous polyacrylamide matrixes were prepared. Elevating temperature required for polymerization did not change the W/O/W HIPE-DE morphologies. This simple approach provides a versatile platform for synthesis of a variety of porous polymer systems.