Top-down Approach for Fabrication of Polymer Microspheres by Interfacial Engineering

Yue Fan; De-Hui Wang; Jin-Long Yang; Jia-Ning Song; Xiao-Mei Li; Cheng-Lin Zhang; Dong-Sheng Wang; Long-Quan Chen; Jia-Xi Cui; Xu Deng

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Top-down Approach for Fabrication of Polymer Microspheres by Interfacial Engineering

ARTICLE | Updated：2020-07-17

- Top-down Approach for Fabrication of Polymer Microspheres by Interfacial Engineering
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 38, Issue 12, Pages: 1286-1293(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  a.Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
  b.Department of Physics at Interfaces, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128, Mainz, Germany
  c.School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
  d.School of Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
- Author bio：
  
  wangds@uestc.edu.cn (D.S.W.)
  dengxu@uestc.edu.cn (X.D.)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-020-2453-3
  CLC： M
- Received：08 March 2020，
  
  Revised：2020-4-12，
  
  Accepted：06 May 2020，
  
  Online First：17 July 2020，
  
  Published：10 September 2020
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Fan, Y.; Wang, D. H.; Yang, J. L.; Song, J. N.; Li, X. M.; Zhang, C. L.; Wang, D. S.; Chen, L. Q.; Cui, J. X.; Deng, X. Top-down approach for fabrication of polymer microspheres by interfacial engineering. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2020, 38, 1286–1293

Yue Fan, De-Hui Wang, Jin-Long Yang, et al. Top-down Approach for Fabrication of Polymer Microspheres by Interfacial Engineering[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2020, 38(12): 1286-1293.
Fan, Y.; Wang, D. H.; Yang, J. L.; Song, J. N.; Li, X. M.; Zhang, C. L.; Wang, D. S.; Chen, L. Q.; Cui, J. X.; Deng, X. Top-down approach for fabrication of polymer microspheres by interfacial engineering. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2020, 38, 1286–1293 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-020-2453-3.

Yue Fan, De-Hui Wang, Jin-Long Yang, et al. Top-down Approach for Fabrication of Polymer Microspheres by Interfacial Engineering[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2020, 38(12): 1286-1293. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-020-2453-3.

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Abstract

Polymer microspheres with uniform size

composition

and surface property have gained extensive researches in past decades. Conventional bottom-up approaches are using monomers or oligomers to build up desired polymer microspheres. However

directly shaping high-molecular-weight polymers into well-ordered polymer microspheres remains a great challenge. Herein

we reported a facile and efficient top-down approach to fabricate microspheres with high-molecular-weight polymer microfibers. By harnessing interfacial engineering-control during the polymer microspheres formation

uniformly sized microspheres could be produced with widely ranged diameters (from 10 μm to the capillary length of each polymer melt). The size limitation of this approach could be further extended by a controllable Plateau-Rayleigh instability phenomenon. Principally

the top-down approach allows fabrication of microspheres by various polymer melts with surface energy higher than 25 mN/m. Our work paves a way for green

cost-effective

and customizable production of a variety of functional polymer microspheres without any chemical reaction assistant.

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