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A New Method for the Preparation of Concentrated Translucent Polymer Nanolatexes from Emulsion Polymerization Niels M. B. Smeets,* Raul P. Moraes, Jeffery A. Wood, and Timothy F. L. McKenna Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 Received September 24, 2010. Revised Manuscript Received November 30, 2010 A novel method for the preparation of concentrated, colloidally stable, translucent polymer nanolatexes is presented. Herein nanolatexes are obtained from emulsion polymerization, utilizing the potential of catalytic chain transfer to enhance the particle nucleation efficiency. Low amounts of emulsifier are required (
