Acrylic resins have been manufactured since the 1940s, and today’s advanced techniques yield high-performance acrylics. Manufacturing processes also allow for the “customization” of acrylics. One method for customization uses multiphase or core shell polymerization (Figure 1).
Core shell polymerization has been utilized for many decades. When run effectively, the process can yield a product that is essentially two resins in one particle. The dual particle nature can be modified with differing species/hybrids in the core or shell. Many resin systems can be made in the nanoparticle range of 20-110 nanometers.