Online Monitoring of Styrene Polymerization in Miniemulsion by Hyperpolarized 129Xenon NMR Spectroscopy

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• 作者：Mathis Duewel ; Nicolas Vogel ; Clemens K. Weiss ; Katharina Landfester ; Hans-Wolfgang Spiess ; Kerstin M眉nnemann
• 刊名：Macromolecules
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：February 28, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：45
• 期：4
• 页码：1839-1846
• 全文大小：383K
• 年卷期：v.45,no.4(February 28, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-5835

文摘

Online monitoring of a miniemulsion polymerization of styrene by hyperpolarized ¹²⁹Xe NMR spectroscopy is presented. The chemical shift of ¹²⁹Xe directly reports on the monomer/polymer ratio in the reaction mixture and therefore on the conversion of the reaction. The method allows for monitoring the progress of a polymerization with high time resolution and without sample extraction. The results obtained by ¹²⁹Xe NMR spectroscopy were successfully validated by comparison with results of calorimetry. Further characterization of the polymer dispersions with regard to the solids content and the particle diameters proved the comparability of both methods. Small deviations in the kinetic data and the properties of the polymer suspension from both methods are explained by the loss of monomer during the ¹²⁹Xe NMR experiments due to the used setup. In the future, ¹²⁹Xe NMR might also be applied for online monitoring of other chemicals reactions, e.g., allowing for determining the kinetics of thermoneutral reactions.