Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Chemistry have improved a popular technology used to generate a range of industrial plastics for applications ranging from paints and coatings ...

Particle formation during the initial stages of emulsifier-free organotellurium-mediated living radical emulsion polymerization (emulsion TERP) of styrene at 60°C was investigated at two stirring ...

Styrene (hydrophobic monomer), methyl methacrylate (MMA, hydrophilic monomer, almost 100 times more soluble in water than styrene) and nonionic emulsifier are often used in general emulsion ...