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Published in final edited form as: J Anal At Spectrom. 2010;25(3):269–281. doi: 10.1039/b916850h

Table 2.

Variation in particle diameter and amount of secondary nucleation as a function of seeded emulsion polymerization method and replication of experiment.

Sample	Method^a	D_n (nm)	CV_D (%)
ST073	1	633	4.3
ST077	1	650	2.9
ST162	1	821	5.3
ST167	1	744	2.4
ST120	2	699	7.5
ST124	2	771	4.7
ST125	2	726	5.7
ST130	2	854	2.6
ST141	2	759	3.4
ST154^b	2	714	9.2

Experiments performed with quantity of seed latex corresponding to 0.1 g polymer. Other reagents: 0.4 g styrene, 0.25 g Me-β-CD, 15 mg NaHCO₃, 1 mg SDS, 15 – 20 mg of Ln(TNB)₃ complex, 10 g additional water. [initiator] = 10 mM. Polymerization for 24 hours at 353 K after 24 hours of swelling.

ST154 performed with 10-fold reduction in initiator (ACVA) concentration