Supporting Information
RAFT iniferter polymerization in miniemulsion
using visible light
Kenward Jung,
1
Cyrille Boyer,
1,2,
* Per B. Zetterlund
1,
*
1
Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical Engineering,
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
E-mail: p.zetterlund@unsw.edu.au
2
Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Australia,
Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
E-mail: cboyer@unsw.edu.au
* Corresponding authors
Experimental Section
Materials
Butyl methacrylate (BuMA, Sigma-Aldrich) was deinhibited by passing through a column of basic
alumina. 4-Cyano-4-[(dodecylsulfanylthiocarbonyl)sulfanyl] pentanoic acid (CDTPA, Boron
Molecular) was used as received. Hexadecane (HD, Sigma-Aldrich) and sodium dodecyl sulfate
(SDS, Sigma-Aldrich) was used as received. MilliQ water was used for miniemulsion experiments.
Characterizations
Conversion was measured using gravimetry by drying samples in a vacuum oven at 40 °C. The
molecular weight and molecular weight distribution was measured by gel permeation chromatography
(GPC). Tetrahydrofuran (HPLC grade, 0.05% w/v 2,6-dibutyl-4-methylphenol (BHT)) was used as
the eluent at 40 °C and at a flow rate of 1 mL/min. The GPC system was comprised of a Shimadzu
SIL-10AD auto-injector, a Polymer Laboratories 5.0 μm bead-size guard column (50x7.5 mm
2
), 4
linear PL (Styragel) columns (10
5
, 10
4
, 10
3
and 500 Å) and an RID-10A differential refractive index
(RI) detector and UV-Vis detector.
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