Towards Real Applications High Solids Content and Reproducible Latexes

6 Towards Real Applications High Solids Content and Reproducible Latexes 

For real applications and thus being attractive to industry, the latexes have to be free of coagulum and with a high sohds content (in industry, latexes with a solids content above 45% are used, because this saves process and transportation costs). There can be some exceptions regarding the solids content, but only if the final product has very specific properties so that very small amounts of the product have market potential. 

It is worth mentioning here that the latex industry requires film-forming latexes. Therefore, all the waterborne polymer lay nanoeomposites synthesized with model styrene are not very useful for industrial applications. 

Another important point is the reproducibility of the process. In the case of miniemulsion polymerization, the most problematic step is the 

In the case of polymer-clay latexes prepared by miniemulsion polymerization, it is very problematic to obtain stable latexes at a reasonable solids content. Most of the studies presented up to now had very low ( 5% ), low ( 10% ) or relatively low ( 20% °) solids contents. 

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