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Rod-like micelles of octadecyltrimethylammonium bromide and their freezing upon solubilised styrene polymerisation†
Jianxi Zhao,Hongbin Yu,Shenglu Deng
RSC Advances Pub Date : 09/20/2016 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/C6RA18794C
Abstract

The association of octadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (C18TABr) in ethanol/water (10/90 wt%) solvent has been studied using light-scattering measurements. With the help of sodium 2-naphthalenesulfonate (SNphs), C18TABr formed rod-like micelles. Styrene was solubilised into the templating C18TABr micelles with a mole ratio of SNphs to surfactant (nSNphs/nC18TABr) of 0.5, which was examined by dynamic light-scattering (DLS) and UV-spectral measurements. Then the solubilised styrene was polymerised in situ. Dilution experiments were performed to test the freezing effect. It was found that the amount of solubilising styrene, represented as the mole ratio of styrene to surfactant (nst/nsurf), should be greater than 2.7 so as to achieve a good freezing effect. In the case of nst/nsurf = 4.4, well-frozen rod-like micelles were obtained and their morphologies were evinced by TEM images. These frozen micelles were stable even in the 400% dilution test.

Graphical abstract: Rod-like micelles of octadecyltrimethylammonium bromide and their freezing upon solubilised styrene polymerisation
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