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Tailoring the morphology and epoxy group content of glycidyl methacrylate-based polyHIPE monoliths via radiation-induced polymerization at room temperature

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Glycidylmethacrylate (GMA)-based poly(high internal phase emulsion) (polyHIPE) monoliths were prepared using a HIPE template via radiation-induced polymerization at room temperature. The effects of surfactant content, cross-linking degree, water fraction, and porogen content on the surface area, average void diameter, distribution of void diameter, average interconnection diameter, average pore diameter, and epoxy group content of GMA-based polyHIPE monoliths were investigated. The morphology and epoxy group content of GMA-based polyHIPE monoliths may be tailored by tuning each of the factors above according to the requirements of specific applications. Finally, the different morphology and epoxy group content of GMA-based polyHIPE monoliths were applied in phenol removal from cigarette smoke (CS) through a reaction between the epoxy group and phenol. The results showed that GMA-based polyHIPE monoliths with the higher content of epoxy group and bigger surface area showed the higher rate of phenol removal.

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The authors thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 51003122), the Dean Science and Technology Development Fund Project of Zhengzhou Tobacco Research Institute (no. 332016CA0210), the Key Science and Technology Projects of CNTC (no. 312010AA0040), and the National Science and Technology Project of China (no. 322012AK0030) for their financial support.

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    Song Yang, Yipeng Wang, Yunzhen Jia, Xuehui Sun, Peijian Sun, Yaqiong Qin, Ruyang Li & Cong Nie

  2. Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, People’s Republic of China

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Yang, S., Wang, Y., Jia, Y. et al. Tailoring the morphology and epoxy group content of glycidyl methacrylate-based polyHIPE monoliths via radiation-induced polymerization at room temperature. Colloid Polym Sci 296, 1005–1016 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-018-4307-x

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