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Experiment 1-Emulsion Polymerization of Polystyrene
Experiment 1-Emulsion Polymerization of Polystyrene
Experiment 1-Emulsion Polymerization of Polystyrene
Experimental Procedure:
To an Erlenmeyer flask, add approximately 19.5 ml water , 3.25 ml NaHPO 4 ,
and agitate for 5 minutes. After that, add 0.05g of potassium persulfate and stir
for an extra 5 minutes. Then, 0.35g of emulsifier SDS is added and mixed with
the reaction mixture. Heating continues until reaching a temperature of 65
degrees. Once desired temperature is reached, attach condenser, and add 11
ml of styrene (density=0.86), and continue heating for 45mins-1hr. After that,
stop the heating and add 1.6 grams of aluminum sulfate and stir for about 3
minutes. Finally, take the contents of the flask and pour into a beaker
containing 500ml ethanol where then suction filtration is done to collect our
desire polymer precipitate. Rinse to collect all remaining contents in the
beaker.
Results:
After filtration and drying of product, the measure mass of produced
polystyrene was 1.17 grams.
Questions:
1) Initial mass of styrene mstyrene= Vadded x density = 11 x 0.86 = 9.46 g
2)
Mass SDS (g) 0.15 0.25 0.35 0.4
Mass product(g) 0.76 0.91 1.17 4.31
[SDS] x 10-3 15.4 25.6 35.9 41
Ln [SDS] -4.1 -3.6 -3.3 -3.19
% Yield 8.03 9.61 12.36 45.5
Ln (% Yield) 2.08 2.26 2.51 3.81
Ln(DPn) vs Ln(SDS)
4.5
4
y = 1.4393x + 7.771 3.5
3
Ln(DPn)
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
-4.3 -4.1 -3.9 -3.7 -3.5 -3.3 -3.1 -2.9 -2.7 -2.5
Ln(SDS)