Block Copolymer Synthesis by a Miniemulsion Stable Free Radical Polymerization Process
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The ultimate success of living-radical polymerizations will depend on whether they can be used to make materials with unique properties in an economical and acceptable manufacturing process. We report a major step in this direction for the SFRP process by demonstrating that a miniemulsion process can be used to polymerize monomers to high conversion with a high degree of livingness and that this process can be used to synthesize block copolymers. The key to the polymerizations is the use of a nitroxide-terminated oligomer to initiate the miniemulsions. Miniemulsions are performed at 135 °C to greater than 99% conversion to give polystyrenes with polydispersities between 1.15 and 1.25. Chain extension studies show these materials to have a high degree of livingness. Reaction of these polystyrene latexes with n -butyl acrylate lead to the first block copolymers completely made under SFRP miniemulsion conditions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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