Cross-Linked Polystyrene Incorporating Water Pools

摘要

Past experience with polymer chemistry and with micro-emulsion systems led usrecently to combine the fields. As will be described, new polymeric materials were prepared by rigidifying reverse micellar systems formed by adding water and a suitable surfactant to a polymerizable monomer. Years ago the term 'water pool' was coined to depict aqueous microdroplets that form in apolar solvents containing a surfactant, AOT. So effective is AOT that one can readily dissolve 10-20% water in octane to give optically clear solutions. The size of the resulting water pools depends on the (H2O)/(AOT) ration, henceforth called R. (JES)