Polymer hollow microspheres and preparation method and application thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10538658-B2
Application number	US-201816027254-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 3, 2018
Priority date	Jan 29, 2016
Publication date	Jan 21, 2020
Grant date	Jan 21, 2020

Abstract

The present invention is applicable to the field of polymer material preparation, and provides a method for preparing polymer hollow microspheres, the steps are as follows: mixing a styrene-based monomer A, an acrylic monomer B, and an acrylate monomer C with a initiator, and reacting to prepare a seed emulsion; maintaining the temperature of the seed emulsion unchanged, mixing the styrene-based monomer A, the monomer C, and a sulfur-containing acrylic monomer D with the initiator, continuously dripping to the seed emulsion, to obtain a product; adding alkaline solution to the product, then adding acid solution, and finally neutralizing, to obtain hollow microspheres.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for preparing polymer hollow microspheres, wherein, the method comprises:
Step 1: mixing a styrene-based monomer A, an acrylic monomer B, and an acrylate monomer C with an initiator, and reacting to obtain a seed emulsion;
Step 2: maintaining the temperature of the seed emulsion unchanged, mixing the styrene-based monomer A, the acrylate monomer C, and a sulfur-containing acrylic monomer D with the initiator, dripping the mixture to the seed emulsion, to obtain a product; and
Step 3: adding alkaline solution to the product, then adding acid solution, and finally neutralizing obtained mixture by adding alkaline solution, to obtain hollow microspheres.

2. The preparing method according to claim 1 , wherein the initiator is a water-soluble free radical initiator, and comprises ammonium persulfate, potassium persulfate, or redox initiators.

3. The preparing method according to claim 1 , wherein the step 1, the mass ratio of styrene-based monomer A to acrylic monomer B to acrylate monomer C is 20-80: 10-40:10-40, the mass of the initiator is 1 wt %-2 wt % of the total mass of the styrene-based monomer A, acrylic monomer B and acrylate monomer C; the reaction temperature is 0-90° C., and reaction time is 3-5 hrs.

4. The preparing method according to claim 1 , wherein the third step specifically comprises: maintaining the temperature at 80-130° C., adding an alkaline solution to the product to adjust the pH of the system to 11.0-14.0, reacting for 1-3 hrs; add acidic solution, adjust the pH of the system to 1.0-4.0, react for 1-3 hours, then add alkaline solution to adjust the pH of the system to 6.5-7.5.

5. The preparing method according to claim 4 , wherein the concentration of the alkaline solution is 5-20%, the alkaline solution is KOH or NaOH solution; the concentration of the acidic solution is 5 to 20%, and the acidic solution is hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid or phosphoric acid solution.

6. Polymer hollow microspheres, wherein they are prepared by using the method of claim 1 .

7. The polymer hollow microspheres according to the claim 6 , the prepared polymer hollow microspheres have an Abbe index n>1.6, with an aperture ranging from 100 nm to 2000 nm, shell thickness ranging from 50 nm to 100 nm.

8. The polymer hollow microspheres according to the claim 6 , wherein the polymer hollow microspheres are applied in pharmaceutical engineering, catalytic technology, biotechnology, electronic information, material engineering, architectural coatings.

9. An insulating reflective coating comprises the polymeric hollow microspheres according to claim 6 .

Assignees

• Univ Shenzhen

Inventors

• Chen Shaojun
• Zhuo Haitao
• Lai Lijun
• Yang Jinghao

Classifications

• C08K7/22

  Expanded, porous or hollow particles · CPC title

• C08L2207/53

  Core-shell polymer · CPC title

• C09D151/003

  grafted on to macromolecular compounds obtained by reactions only involving unsaturated carbon-to-carbon bonds (C09D151/04, C09D151/06 take precedence) · CPC title

• C08F257/02

  on to polymers of styrene or alkyl-substituted styrenes · CPC title

• C08F265/06

  Polymerisation of acrylate or methacrylate esters on to polymers thereof · CPC title