Bulk Scale Synthesis of Monodisperse PDMS Droplets above 3 μm and Their Encapsulation by Elastic Shells
| Autor: | Elbers, Nina, Jose, Jissy, Imhof, Arnout, van Blaaderen, Alfons, Sub Soft Condensed Matter, Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Sub Soft Condensed Matter, Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Materials science Polydimethylsiloxane General Chemical Engineering Dispersity technology industry and agriculture General Chemistry macromolecular substances complex mixtures eye diseases Catalysis chemistry.chemical_compound Hydrolysis Monomer chemistry Chemical engineering Dimethyldiethoxysilane Oil droplet Taverne Materials Chemistry Organic chemistry Solubility |
| Zdroj: | Chemistry of Materials, 27, 1709. American Chemical Society |
| ISSN: | 0897-4756 |
| Popis: | We report several facile, surfactant-free methods to prepare monodisperse polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) droplets in the size range 3–8 μm in water. These methods, of which the pros and cons are discussed, are extensions of a procedure described before by our group which focused on smaller droplet sizes. The PDMS oil droplets are formed by ammonia catalyzed hydrolysis and condensation of the monomer dimethyldiethoxysilane (DMDES) in water. One of the methods entails a seeded growth procedure in which other oils, such as lower molecular weight hydrocarbons, were found to be able to swell the PDMS droplets if their solubility in water was higher than that of the seed droplets. This way, larger droplets with mixed composition could be prepared. It also turned out to be possible to load the monodisperse droplets with an oil soluble dye. The droplets could be coated with an elastic, partially permeable, shell formed by cross-linking the PDMS with tetraethoxysilane (TES) in the presence of poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) that provided colloidal stability. Besides, the liquid interior of these shells could be changed by solvent exchange. |
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