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Efficient Pathway for Preparing Hollow Particles: Site-Specific Crosslinking of Spherical Polymer Particles with Photoresponsive Groups That Play a Dual Role in Shell Crosslinking and Core Shielding
journal contribution
posted on 2016-08-11, 00:00 authored by Yukiya Kitayama, Kazuki Yoshikawa, Toshifumi TakeuchiSite-specific
a posteriori photocrosslinking
of homogeneous spherical polymer particles and subsequent removal
of the particle corethe self-templating strategyhas
been developed as an efficient pathway for hollow particle formation.
In this approach, homogeneous polymer particles containing linear
polymers bearing post-crosslinkable side-chain groups are first synthesized,
and the photoinduced crosslinking occurred only at the shell region
in the homogeneous polymer particles. Our fundamental studies clarified
that the remaining non-crosslinked photoresponsive groups in the shell
region played a crucial role in shielding the core region from photoirradiation.
The shell-selective crosslinking was successfully applied to hollow
polymer particle formation by core removal. This facile route to polymeric
hollow particle formation via a self-templating strategy has great
potential to be used as an alternative because the route has high
mass productivity and high simplicity as a result of the non-use of
additional sacrificial template particles and highly toxic solvents.