Stable Free-Radical Emulsion Polymerization
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Polymerizations of styrene under emulsion stable free-radical polymerization conditions are reported. Precipitation of an acetone solution of a low molecular weight TEMPO-terminated polystyrene into an aqueous solution of poly(vinyl alcohol) enables the formation of emulsion particles that can be swollen with monomer and subsequently polymerized. The polymerizations proceed in a living manner, yielding polymers that show an incremental increase in molecular weight with time and have narrow molecular weight distributions. Plots of number-average molecular weight versus conversion are linear, indicating a controlled polymerization. The resulting latexes are colloidally stable, and particle size distributions are Gaussian with an average particle diameter of 450 nm. These results constitute the first successful example of an SFRP emulsion process in which the product is not contaminated with a conventionally produced broad molecular weight distribution polymer.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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