Polystyrene latex suspensions, conductance

Indeed, much higher levels of conductance fluctuations were reported for electrolytes that contain polystyrene latex suspensions (21) or micellar colloids (22). Fluctuations were shown to depend on concentration, characteristic size, and the charge of colloid particles. For uncharged nonconductive spherical particles that occupy volume fraction F of the total sample volume... 

Colloid characterization is not the classical application of Th-FFF. Nevertheless, Th-FFF was first applied to silica particles suspended in toluene testing a correlation between thermal diffusion and thermal conductivity [397]. Although a weak retention was achieved, no further studies were carried out until the work of Liu and Giddings [398] who fractionated polystyrene latex beads ranging from 90 to 430 nm in acetonitrile applying a low AT of only 17 K. More recently, polystyrene and polybutadiene latexes with particle sizes between 50 pm and 10 pm were also fractionated in aqueous suspensions despite the weak thermal diffusion [215] (see Fig. 30). Th-FFF is also sensitive to the surface composition of colloids (see the work on block copolymer micelles), recent effort in this area has been devoted to analyzing surfaces of colloidal particles [399,400]. 

Corrosion protection by ICPs has been well documented in several reviews [136-141]. The use of ICP-based core-shell latexes for the corrosion protection of steel is a relatively new field of research, and a recent review has proposed the exploitation of such possibihties [142]. In a recent study, we found that ICP-based core-shell latexes offer the possibility of achieving anticorrosion properties [143], though the presence of pinholes or scratches in the coatings enhances the corrosion rate of metals. This problem may be due to poor dispersion of the composite particles in the insulating resin systems, and future research will need to develop conductive polymer-based anticorrosive primers for metals. The anticorrosive properties of PANI-coated polystyrene latex microspheres has been reported recently [144]. PS-PANI composite particles with core-shell structure were prepared by chemical oxidative polymerization of anihne monomer in the presence of a PVP-stabilized PS latex suspension. The reduced form of the particle was obtained by adding hydrazine mono hydrate to the suspension. Both oxidized and reduced PANI-PS particles were used to obtain a PANI-PS-coated iron electrode (PANl-PS-Fe). Pure PANI... 

The size distributions of colloidal suspensions of nanoparticles 74 nm to 14 nm in diameter are analyzed on-line. The sols are first diluted in water seeded with enough TFA to attain electrical conductivities in the range of 0.01 S/m. The solution is then finely dispersed into an atmosphere of CO2 via a Taylor cone-jet. The resisting electrospray of ultrafine droplets dries, transferring the solution particles virtually uncontaminated into the gas. There they are sized by means of a differential mobility analyzer and an inertial impactor of unusually high resolution. The technique is first tested successfully with previously calibrated monodisperse polystyrene latex (PSL) spheres 74 to 21 nm in diameter. It is then used to size a solution of colloidal silica with particle diameters nominally between 10 and 14 nm. 

Hollow and porous polymer capsules of micrometer size have been fabricated by using emulsion polymerization or through interfacial polymerization strategies [79,83-84, 88-90], Micron-size, hollow cross-linked polymer capsules were prepared by suspension polymerization of emulsion droplets with polystyrene dissolved in an aqueous solution of poly(vinyl alcohol) [88], while latex capsules with a multihollow structure were processed by seeded emulsion polymerization [89], Ceramic hollow capsules have also been prepared by emulsion/phase-separation procedures [14,91-96] For example, hollow silica capsules with diameters of 1-100 micrometers were obtained by interfacial reactions conducted in oil/water emulsions [91],... 

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