Multi-step microfluidic polymerization reactions conducted in droplets: The internal trigger approach

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 130, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 9935-9941

  Li, Wei ^a   Pham, Hung H ^a   Nie, Zhihong ^a   MacDonald, Brendan ^a   Güenther, Axel ^a   Kumacheva, Eugenia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; FLUID MECHANICS; FREE RADICALS; MONOMERS; NANOFLUIDICS; POLYCONDENSATION; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; RATE CONSTANTS; REACTION RATES;

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); CONTINUOUS SYNTHESIS; IN DROPLETS; INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORK (IPN); MICRO FLUIDIC; MICROFLUIDIC SYNTHESIS; MONOMER MIXTURES; MULTI-STEP; NARROW SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; POLY ADDITION; POLYMER PARTICLES; POLYMERIZATION REACTIONS; RADICAL POLYMERIZATIONS; STOICHIOMETRIC RATIO (SR);

FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION;

ACRYLIC ACID; FREE RADICAL; OLIGOMER; POLYMER; URETHAN;

ADDITION REACTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; FLOW RATE; MICROFLUIDICS; POLYMERIZATION; SCREENING; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 48249103071     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja8029174     Document Type: Article

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