Claims
- 1. A process for the production of a porous crosslinked polymeric material comprising:
- (a) providing a water-in-oil emulsion comprising (i) a mixture of polymerizable monomers comprising at least one oil-soluble vinyl monomer and from about 2 to about 70 weight percent, based on the mixture, of a multifunctional unsaturated crosslinking monomer, (ii) at least 90 weight percent, based on the emulsion, of water as the internal phase (iii) an effective amount to produce the water-in-oil emulsion of a surfactant comprising (A) at least one sorbitan fatty acid ester or saccharide fatty acid ester and (B) at least one quaternary salt having at least one greater than or equal to 8 carbon atoms hydrocarbon group, and (iv) a polymerization initiator;
- (b) curing said polymerizable monomers under conditions effective to polymerize and crosslink the polymerizable monomers; and
- (c) removing at least a portion of water from said cross-linked emulsion thereby producing a porous crosslinked polymeric material.
- 2. The process of claim 1 wherein the quaternary salt is a quaternary salt having at least one C.sub.8 -C.sub.30 hydrocarbon group.
- 3. The process of claim 2 wherein the quaternary salt is a quaternary salt having one or more phosphorus or nitrogen atom containing head group.
- 4. The process of claim 1 wherein the quaternary salt can be represented by a formula:
- {Q}.sup.x+ R.sub.y Z.sup.x-
- wherein R is a hydrocarbon having greater than or equal to 8 carbon atoms, Q is a cationic head group having a positive charge of x and having at least one heteroatom, x is greater than 0, y is an integer of 1 to 3, and Z is an anionic counter ion having a negative charge of x.
- 5. The process of claim 4 wherein the ratio of component (iii)(A) to component (iii)(B) is within the range of from about 100:1 to about 1:2.
- 6. The process of claim 5 wherein the quaternary salt is selected from the group consisting of alkylammonium, alkyl- pyridinium, alkylisoquinolium, alkylimidazolinium, alkylimidazoline, alkylphosphonium, and alkyl sulfonium.
- 7. The process of claim 5 wherein the surfactant is present in an amount from about 0.1 to about 40 weight percent based on the polymerizable monomers.
- 8. The process of claim 6 wherein the ratio of component (iii)(A) to component (iii)(B) is within the range of about 100:1 to about 1:2.
- 9. The process of claim 7 wherein the component (iii)(A) comprises at least one sorbitan fatty acid ester.
- 10. The process of claim 9 wherein the component (iii)(A) is present in an amount from about 2 to about 36 weight percent based on the polymerizable monomers.
- 11. The process of claim 7 wherein the component (iii)(A) comprises at least one saccharide fatty acid ester.
- 12. The process of claim 11 wherein the saccharide fatty acid ester is a fatty acid ester of a saccharide having the formula C.sub.n (H.sub.2 O).sub.n-r, wherein r is an integer from 0 to 3 and 3(r+1)<n<10(r+1).
- 13. The process of claim 12 in which the saccharide fatty acid ester is partially alkylated in the hydroxyl positions of the saccharides.
- 14. The process of claim 3 in which the vinyl monomer is selected from the group consisting of monoalkenyl arenes, acrylate or methacrylate esters, conjugated diolefins, allenes, olefin halides and mixtures thereof.
- 15. The process of claim 14 in which the multifunctional unsaturated crosslinking monomer is a monomer having at least two functionality selected from the group consisting of vinyl groups, acrylate groups and methacrylate groups.
- 16. The process of claim 15 in which the water-in-oil emulsion comprises as the internal phase, at least about 95 weight percent, based on the emulsion, of water.
Parent Case Info
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional application No. 60/018,892, filed May 30, 1996.
PCT Information
Filing Document |
Filing Date |
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102e Date |
371c Date |
PCT/US97/09007 |
5/27/1997 |
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7/21/1997 |
7/21/1997 |
Publishing Document |
Publishing Date |
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Kind |
WO97/45456 |
12/4/1997 |
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4016-194 |
Jan 1992 |
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