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A polystyrene seed with a narrow size distribution was synthesized by the dispersion polymerization method first, then uniformly “swollen up” and cross-linked with divinylbenzene (DVB) utilizing the dynamic swelling polymerization technique. The surface of hollow poly(styrene-co-DVB) particles was coated with nickel by the electroless plating method. The density of the synthesized “core–shell”-type conductive particle was 3.06 g/cm3, significantly lower than the density of pure metallurgical nickel of 8.91 g/cm3. Hence, the sedimentation problem, which often occurs in the blend of high-density metal fillers with a relatively low density polymer matrix, could be overcome as the metal fillers were replaced by the synthesized core–shell-type conductive particles.
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Ho, A., Chang, J., Chin, WK. et al. Synthesis and Structural Characterizations of “Core–Shell”-Type Nickel-Coated Polymeric Particles. J Polym Res 13, 285–291 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10965-005-9037-3
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