Table 3.
Functional comonomers employed in polymerizations with styrene, (meth)acrylates, and vinyl acetate in direct miniemulsion.
| Main monomer | Functional comonomer | Functional group | Ref. |
| styrene | acrylic acid | carboxylic acid | [30,34–38] |
| methacrylic acid | carboxylic acid | [31] | |
| 2-aminoethyl methacrylate | amino | [34–35,40] | |
| isoprene | double bond | [43] | |
| vinylphosphonic acid | phosphonate | [44] | |
| 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate | hydroxy | [40–41] | |
| 2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate | hydroxy | [41] | |
| styrene sulfonic acid | sulfonate | [40,45] | |
| methyl methacrylate | vinylphosphonic acid | phosphonate | [44] |
| styrene, butyl acrylate, butyl methacrylate | 2-aminoethyl methacrylate | amino | [42] |
| methyl methacrylate, butyl acrylate | acrylic acid | carboxylic acid | [39] |
| vinyl acetate | n-methylol acrylamide | hydroxy | [32] |
| octadecyl methacrylate | acrylic acid, methacrylic acid | [29] | |
| fluoroalkyl acrylates | acrylic acid | carboxylic acid | [33] |
| methacryloxyethyltrimethyl ammonium chloride | ammonium | [33] | |