Reactive & Functional Polymers, Vol.55, No.2, 211-217, 2003
Ring opening polymerisation of highly concentrated inverse emulsions to obtain microcellular foams
High internal phase emulsions (HIPEs) have been prepared and polymerised by ring-opening metathesis polymerisation using different monomers and initiators. The influence of the monomer structure and the experimental conditions on the stability of the HIPE and the morphology of the resulting materials has been studied. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords:high internal phase emulsion;microcellular foam;ring-opening metathesis polymerisation;poly(HIPE)