Fabrication of Hollow Chloroprene Rubber Particles by Solvent Evaporation Method

Abstract

Hollow particles are gas-filled spherical particles with single or multiple voids; they have advantageous properties such as low effective concentration and high specific surface area. In this study, we developed a simple method for fabricating hollow particles made of widely used chloroprene rubber. Hollow particles with voids less than 10μm in particle size were obtained by stably maintaining microbubbles or aqueous microdroplets inside a solvent droplet with dissolved chloroprene rubber.