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  "abstract": "Emulsion polymerization in water is an important process to produce polymer latexes for various applications. Several recent works have attempted to use visible-light-driven reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) polymerization to further control polymer architectures in miniemulsion under mild conditions. However, photoinduced RAFT miniemulsion polymerization mediated by common amphiphilic chain transfer agents suffers from secondary nucleation, yielding latexes with broad molecular weight distributions. Here, we show that a bio-based hydrophobic deep eutectic solvent (DES) composed of menthol and decanoic acid serves as a green functional additive that restores control over the polymerization. Incorporating the DES into the organic phase of a methyl methacrylate (MMA) miniemulsion reduced the molecular weight dispersity from 3.12 to 1.71, while maintaining rapid polymerization under blue visible light and open-to-air conditions. Also, miniemulsion polymerization with DES shows substantial polymerization in the dark after a brief period of irradiation, resulting in a process with lower energy cost than conventional photoinduced polymerization. In short, this work establishes inexpensive, low-toxicity DES as a practical route to energy-efficient, oxygen-tolerant, and precise photoinduced miniemulsion polymerization.",
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    "Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University Tainan 70101 Taiwan ssyu@mail.ncku.edu.tw.",
    "Core Facility Center, National Cheng Kung University Tainan 70101 Taiwan.",
    "Program on Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing, Academy of Innovative Semiconductor and Sustainable Manufacturing, National Cheng Kung University Tainan 70101 Taiwan."
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      "name": "Yun-Lun Huang"
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      "name": "Shih-Ching Wang"
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  "published": "2026-11-02",
  "publisher": "Royal Society of Chemistry",
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  "title": "Photoinduced RAFT miniemulsion polymerization assisted by bio-based deep eutectic solvents",
  "title_text": "Photoinduced RAFT miniemulsion polymerization assisted by bio-based deep eutectic solvents",
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  "updated_at": "2026-11-06T12:21:53Z",
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