Porous monodispersed particles and method for production thereof, and use thereof

Abstract

To provide porous monodispersed particles obtained by preparing, as seed particles, poly(methyl methacrylate) particles or acrylic resin particles comprising 70% by mass or more of methyl methacrylate as a copolymerization component, swelling the seed particles 20 to 80 times the size of the original seed particles by mass using a swelling solution comprising an oil-soluble polymerization initiator and a monomer mixture containing 70% by mass or more of methyl methacrylate and 3 to 8% by mass of divinylbenzene, and polymerizing the monomers. The particles are porous particles with a diameter of the order of micrometers and a narrow particle-size distribution and are monodispersed. Colored monodispersed particles obtained by agglomerating a pigment in the porous monodispersed particles are monodispersed and spherical, and contain a large amount of pigment therein.

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