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Formation and surface properties of raspberry-like silica particles: effect of molecular weight of the coating poly(methacrylic acid) brushes

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In this work, silica particles were firstly modified with poly(methyl methacrylate) and then converted to poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA). The PMAA brushes with different molecular weight were used to modify the seed particles and learn the formation process of the raspberry-like particles. Silica particles with core–shell structure were obtained when the silica seed particles were modified only with carboxyl functional groups. With the increase of the molecular weight of PMAA brushes, uniform raspberry-like silica particles appeared gradually. But when the molecular weight of PMAA brushes was above 136,100, the morphologies became complicated. The electric charge of the polymer brushes was also found to have influence on the final morphologies of the particles. The contact angle (CA) tests showed that films composed of nanoparticles with uniform raspberry-like structures had an average CA of 157.2°, which indicated great prospects in the super-hydrophobic applications.

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This work was financed by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51303001), Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (1408085ME86), Scientific Research Fund of Anhui Provincial Education Department (KJ2013A014), Startup Foundation for Doctors of Anhui University, Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (01001419) and the 211 Project of Anhui University.

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    Yanghua Liu, Yifeng Zhou, Wangyan Nie, Linyong Song & Pengpeng Chen

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Liu, Y., Zhou, Y., Nie, W. et al. Formation and surface properties of raspberry-like silica particles: effect of molecular weight of the coating poly(methacrylic acid) brushes. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol 72, 122–129 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-014-3434-1

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