{"title":"Tailoring Polyaniline for Improved Acetaldehyde Detection","authors":"Bhoomi Het Mavani, Alexander Penlidis","doi":"10.1002/mren.202400018","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mren.202400018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates polyaniline (PANI) for its sensing characteristics for detecting acetaldehyde. Pristine PANI is further modified in two ways to improve its sensing capabilities: 1) addition of a side chain (i.e., two methyl groups) to form poly (2,5-dimethylaniline), 2) addition of small amounts of metal oxide dopant (In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> in this case) to PANI. All the materials are evaluated for their sensing characteristics with respect to both sensitivity and selectivity. The sensitivity of PANI toward acetaldehyde is found to improve with both types of modification (i.e., poly (2,5-dimethylaniline) and PANI doped with different wt.% of In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>). However, upon evaluating selectivity toward acetaldehyde using binary and ternary gas mixtures, pristine PANI exhibited higher selectivity compared to its modified counterparts.</p>","PeriodicalId":18052,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Reaction Engineering","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mren.202400018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142208553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shen Li, Zhong-Xin Liu, Yin-Ning Zhou, Zheng-Hong Luo
{"title":"Determining the Kinetic and Thermodynamic Parameters of Anionic Polymerization of Styrene Using Linear Free-Energy Relationship","authors":"Shen Li, Zhong-Xin Liu, Yin-Ning Zhou, Zheng-Hong Luo","doi":"10.1002/mren.202400021","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mren.202400021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The effect of solvents on kinetic parameters of anionic polymerization is complex and a comprehensive theoretical study has been rare. In this work, four solvent polarity descriptors (i.e., polarizability, dipole moment, nucleophilic index, electrophilic index) are correlated with solvent parameters (<i>E<sub>a</sub></i>, <i>A</i>, Δ<i>H</i>‡, and Δ<i>S</i>‡) by multiple linear regression using the Catalan linear free-energy relationship (LFER) equation for the anionic polymerization of styrene. The results show that <i>E<sub>a</sub></i>, Δ<i>H</i>‡, and Δ<i>S</i>‡ have a low correlation with dipole moment, whereas <i>A</i> is strongly correlated with dipole moment. Given the fact that the larger <i>A</i> the larger effective collision frequency <i>Z</i>, it is hypothesized that in polar solvents, the polymer chains are more extended, enabling more effective collisions between monomers and active anionic species during polymerization. In contrast, in nonpolar solvents, the polymer chains collapse, making it more difficult for the monomer to be inserted into the ion pairs. Subsequently, n-pentane and tetrahydrofuran are chosen as representatives to confirm this conjecture by molecular simulations. Lastly, <i>E<sub>a</sub></i>, <i>A</i> and <i>k<sub>p</sub></i> are predicted for 173 solvents using well-established descriptive relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":18052,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Reaction Engineering","volume":"18 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141922999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Mechanism of Nucleation and Monomer Transport in Inverse Emulsion Polymerization","authors":"F. Joseph Schork","doi":"10.1002/mren.202400017","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mren.202400017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A rationale for droplet nucleation during inverse emulsion polymerization (IEP) (reported by previous investigators) is proposed. Based on the idea that smaller monomer droplets are nucleated into polymer particles, while larger droplets serve as reservoirs for monomer (as in a micellar nucleation mechanism) the question of possible monomer-transport limitation during polymerization is explored.</p>","PeriodicalId":18052,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Reaction Engineering","volume":"18 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mren.202400017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141944321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shota Nakayama, Keishi Suga, Tatsuya Kamata, Kanako Watanabe, Hikaru Namigata, Tom A. J. Welling, Daisuke Nagao
{"title":"Bio-Inspired Polydiacetylene Vesicles for Controlling Stimulus Sensitivity","authors":"Shota Nakayama, Keishi Suga, Tatsuya Kamata, Kanako Watanabe, Hikaru Namigata, Tom A. J. Welling, Daisuke Nagao","doi":"10.1002/mren.202400016","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mren.202400016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Polydiacetylene (PDA) is a kind of photopolymerizable polymer, which exhibits a unique color transition in response to external stimuli such as heat, pH, and solvent. PDAs are attractive as eye-detection stimulus sensors with excellent time performance; however, the sensitivity of PDAs should be improved. Considering the biological membrane-like structure of diacetylene (DA) vesicles, their modification by incorporating membrane lipids (e.g., diacylphosphocholine, PC) can be used to control the membrane fluidity, and consequently molecular ordering of DAs in the vesicle. Inspired by biological membrane systems, lipid vesicles are employed as platforms to generate PDA, and essential factors that influence the sensitivity of PDA are investigated. By lowering the polymerization temperature, the generation of PDA becomes slower, while the sensitivity improves. By adding PCs at the molar ratio of lipid:DA = 1:1, the sensitivity of PDA can be varied: the PCs with lower phase transition temperatures (<i>T</i><sub>m</sub>) made PDA insensitive, while the PCs with higher <i>T</i><sub>m</sub> improved the sensitivity as compared to pure poly(PCDA). It is concluded that the photopolymerization of DAs with a lower membrane fluidity induces highly sensitive PDA, while the photopolymerization of DAs with a higher membrane fluidity induces insensitive PDA with robustness toward stimuli.</p>","PeriodicalId":18052,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Reaction Engineering","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mren.202400016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141871416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annika Klinkert, Zoe Friedrich, Elisabeth Glatt, Wolfgang Augustin, Stephan Scholl
{"title":"Polymer Versus Polymerization Fouling: Basic Deposition Mechanisms During Emulsion Polymerization by the Example of a Vinyl Acetate and Versa 10 Copolymer","authors":"Annika Klinkert, Zoe Friedrich, Elisabeth Glatt, Wolfgang Augustin, Stephan Scholl","doi":"10.1002/mren.202470005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mren.202470005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Front Cover</b>: The deposition process during emulsion polymerization is classified as particulate and reaction fouling. The deposited material is composed of latex particles and emulsifier with particle size and number depending on the respective equilibrium composition of the fluid phase. The figure shows the deposition of latex particles after a reaction time of 240 minutes. Further details can be found in article 2300057 by Wolfgang Augustin and co-workers.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":18052,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Reaction Engineering","volume":"18 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mren.202470005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141425090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of Network Dimension Theory to the Kinetics of Nanogel Formation in Miniemulsion Vinyl/Divinyl Copolymerization: Free-Radical and Living Polymerization","authors":"Hidetaka Tobita","doi":"10.1002/mren.202400014","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mren.202400014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In vinyl/divinyl copolymerization, a crosslink is formed by the reaction between an active center and a pendant double bond. When both the active center and the pendant double bond are located within the same polymer molecule, the cyclization occurs, which is ineffective for growth in molecular weight. In the present model, the network dimension theory is applied to estimate the mean-square radius of gyration for the growing polymer molecule, which is used to account for the enrichment effect of pendant double bonds around the active center for the cyclization reaction. The model is applied to the miniemulsion copolymerization, and both conventional free-radical polymerization and ideal living polymerization are considered. Some of important characteristics of network architecture formed in these two types of polymerization mechanisms that cannot be predicted based on the classical chemical kinetics can be reproduced by the model, such unique characteristics as the pendant double bonds are consumed from the beginning of polymerization in the conventional free-radical polymerization but not so in the living polymerization. The present model provides useful insights into the size and structural dependent network formation kinetics without relying on the lattice model.</p>","PeriodicalId":18052,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Reaction Engineering","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mren.202400014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141362715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmentally Friendly Synthesis of Polymer Nanoparticles in a Packed Reactor Using Glass Beads","authors":"Tetsuya Yamamoto, Ayumi Morino, Hideki Kanda, Ayumu Seki, Toru Ishigami","doi":"10.1002/mren.202400009","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mren.202400009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Polymeric particles less than 100 nm in size (polymer nanoparticles), which are useful in the fields of medicine and so on, are synthesized through emulsion polymerization, wherein surfactants are essential for maintaining their dispersion stability, contaminating particle surfaces and causing high environmental pollution. The soap-free emulsion polymerization (SFEP) of styrene in a packed reactor using microglass beads enables the synthesis of polymer nanoparticles without surfactants. Ultraviolet irradiation is used for radical polymerization using an initiator during the SFEP of styrene. The reaction space in the packed reactor is controlled by the size of glass beads to be filled in the reactor. A decrease in the size of the glass beads narrows the reaction space, causing the average polystyrene particle size to reach 27.3 nm and suppress convection flow by the wall of the glass beads, thereby limiting particle motion and preventing particle growth through particle collisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":18052,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Reaction Engineering","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140941337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Can Industrial Catalytic Olefin Polymerization Plants Tell Us About Reaction Kinetics? From Production Rate and Residence Time to Catalyst Reaction Performance.","authors":"Vasileios Touloupidis, João B. P. Soares","doi":"10.1002/mren.202470003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mren.202470003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Front Cover</b>: Polymer reaction engineering (PRE) is a key competence for process scale-up, but the information collected in daily plant operation is not fully exploited. What do catalytic olefin polymerization plants tell us? In article 2300046, by Vasileios Touloupidis and João B. P. Soares, a method to increase catalyst and process know-how, based on experimentally acquired results from a continuous tandem reactor polymerization process is proposed and validated using small-scale experiments.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":18052,"journal":{"name":"Macromolecular Reaction Engineering","volume":"18 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mren.202470003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140619739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}