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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp. 2011 Feb 5;375(1-3):147–155. doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2010.11.079

Table 1.

Experimental conditions, feeding ratio of reactants, and results for polymerization of styrene (ST), divinylbenzene (DVB), t-butyl acrylate (tBA) by ATRP.

No. of Experiment Molar ratio of I/ST/DVB/tBA Temperature Volume of solvent (mL) Results of polymerization
1 1 : 25 : 125 : 0 90 °C 2 mL Gelation
2 1 : 25 : 125 : 0 70 °C 2 mL Controlled
3 1 : 25 : 125 : 0 60 °C 2 mL No polymer
5 1 : 25 : 125 : 0 70 °C 4 mL Controlled
6 1 : 25 : 125 : 0 70 °C 0.5 mL Gelation
7 1 :25 : 0 : 0 70 °C 2 mL Controlled
8 1 : 0 : 25 : 0 70 °C 2 mL Gelation
9 1 : 25 : 25 : 0 70 °C 2 mL Gelation
10 1 : 125 :25 : 0 70 °C 2 mL Gelation
11 1 : 25 : 125: 125 70 °C 2 mL Controlled

a) The feeding amount of disulfide initiator (I), CuBr or 2,2′-bispyridine is fixed at 0.25, 0.5 and 1.0 mmol, respectively;

b) The meaning of ‘controlled’ is that the amount or molecular weight of polymer can be controlled by the temperature, feeding ratio or time of polymerization.