Net Contribution of Hydrophobic Association to the Thickening Power of Hydrophobically Modified Polyelectrolytes Prepared by Micellar Polymerization

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 1326-1337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Zhu ◽  
Yujun Feng ◽  
Pingya Luo
e-Polymers ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique J. Jiménez-Regalado ◽  
Elva B. Hernández-Flores

AbstractThe synthesis, characterization and rheological properties in aqueous solutions of water-soluble associative polymers (AP’s) are reported. Polymer chains consisting of water-soluble polyacrylamides, hydrophobically modified with low amounts of N,N-dihexylacrylamide (1, 2, 3 and 4 mol%) were prepared via free radical micellar polymerization. The properties of these polymers, with respect to the concentration of hydrophobic groups, using steady-flow and oscillatory experiments were compared. An increase of relaxation time (TR) and modulus plateau (G0) was observed in all samples studied. Two different regimes can be clearly distinguished: a first unentangled regime where the viscosity increase rate strongly depends on hydrophobic content and a second entangled regime where the viscosity follows a scaling behavior of the polymer concentration with an exponent close to 4.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1613 ◽  
pp. 151-156
Author(s):  
Areli I. Velazquez ◽  
Alejandro Coronado ◽  
Enrique J. Jiménez

ABSTRACTWater-soluble associative polyelectrolytes of methacrylic acid [MAA] and ethyl acrylate [EA] (1:1 molar ratio), hydrophobically modified with small amounts of stearyl metacrylate [MM18], were synthesized by means of solution polymerization. Polyelectrolytes with two different molecular structures: multisticker, with hydrophobic groups randomly distributed along the hydrophilic chain and combined, with the hydrophobic groups along the chain and as terminal groups of the backbone, were obtained. Steady shear behavior and linear viscoelastic properties were studied as a function of polymer microstructure and hydrophobic group concentrations on salt-free aqueous solution using a cone-and-plate rheometer. Concentration regimes were obtained for each synthetized polymer. Viscoelastic study shows that the maximum thickening effect corresponds to the combined structure followed by multisticker structure. These polyelectrolytes exhibit high thickening power on aqueous solutions due to the synergy between the hydrophobic attractive interactions and coil expansion phenomena.


1995 ◽  
Vol 73 (11) ◽  
pp. 1941-1947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Klein ◽  
Markwart Kunz ◽  
Lutz Guderjahn

The synthesis and characterization of new amphiphilic copolymers derived from copolymerization of hydrophobically modified so-called vinyl saccharides with 1-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone are described. The vinyl saccharides were prepared in a two-step synthesis. In the first step hydrophobically modified saccharide derivatives were synthesized without protecting procedures by direct reductive amination of the reducing keto-disaccharide isomaltulose (Palatinose®) with n-dodecylamine. In the second step the resulting N-dodecylaminopolyols were coupled with allyl glycidyl ether to give polymerizable amphiphilic vinyl saccharides. The copolymerizations with 1-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone were performed as free radical aqueous solution polymerizations. The characterization of the copolymers was carried out by measuring the viscosity and light scattering in water as well as in trichloromethane, in addition to surface tension measurements and solubilization studies. The solution properties of the copolymers in water and trichloromethane differ remarkably. While the values for the intrinsic viscosities in both solvents are comparable, the weight-average molecular weights in water are much higher than those in trichloromethane, indicating the formation of aggregates in aqueous solution. The vinyl pyrrolidone copolymers are also very surface active, lowering the surface tension of water to as low as 30 mN/m. The combination of measurements of surface tensions and solubilization studies indicates that their hydrophobic association behaviour is formally comparable to those of low molecular weight surfactants. Keywords: vinyl saccharides, isomaltulose, hydrophobic association, amphiphilic polymers.


TAPPI Journal ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNA JONHED ◽  
LARS JÄRNSTRÖM

The aim of this study was to investigate the properties of hydrophobically modified (HM) quaterna-ry ammonium starch ethers for paper sizing. These starches possess temperature-responsive properties; that is, gelation or phase separation occurs at a certain temperature upon cooling. This insolubility of the HM starches in water at room temperature improved their performance as sizing agents. The contact angles for water on sized liner were substantially larger than on unsized liner. When the application temperature was well above the critical phase-separation temperature, larger contact angles were obtained for liner independently of pH compared with those at the lower application temperature. Cobb60 values for liner decreased upon surface sizing, with a low pH and high application temperature giving lower water penetration. Contact angles on greaseproof paper decreased upon sur-face sizing as compared to unsized greaseproof paper, independently of pH and temperature. Greaseproof paper showed no great difference between unsized substrates and substrates sized with HM starch at different pH. This is probably due to the already hydrophobic nature of greaseproof paper. However, the Cobb60 values increased at low pH and low application temperature. Surfactants were added to investigate how they affect the sized surface. Addition of surfactant reduces the contact angles, in spite of indications of complex formation.


TAPPI Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (03) ◽  
pp. 145-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengua Yu ◽  
Feng Wang ◽  
Shiyu Fu ◽  
Lucian Lucia

A very low-density oil-absorbing hydrophobic material was fabricated from cellulose nanofiber aerogels–coated silane substances. Nanocellulose aerogels (NCA) superabsorbents were prepared by freeze drying cellulose nanofibril dispersions at 0.2%, 0.5%, 0.8%, 1.0%, and 1.5% w/w. The NCA were hydrophobically modified with methyltrimethoxysilane. The surface morphology and wettability were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and static contact angle. The aerogels displayed an ultralow density (2.0–16.7 mg·cm-3), high porosity (99.9%–98.9%), and superhydrophobicity as evidenced by the contact angle of ~150° that enabled the aerogels to effectively absorb oil from an oil/water mixture. The absorption capacities of hydrophobic nanocellulose aerogels for waste engine oil and olive oil could be up to 140 g·g-1 and 179.1 g·g-1, respectively.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zihao Xu ◽  
Doh-Gyu Hwang ◽  
Michael D. Bartlett ◽  
Shan Jiang ◽  
Kaitlin M. Bratlie

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 756-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karel Jelínek ◽  
Filip Uhlík ◽  
Zuzana Limpouchová ◽  
Pavel Matějíček ◽  
Karel Procházka

The multimolecular micelles formed by polystyrene-block-poly(methacrylic acid) (PS-PMA) copolymer and by hydrophobically modified PS-PMA copolymer with naphthalene and anthracene (PS-N-PMA-A) were studied by self-consistent field (SCF) calculations in aqueous media. The labeling with covalently bonded naphthalene between PS and PMA blocks and with anthracene at the free end of PMA blocks, which is suitable for experimental nonradiative excitation energy transfer (NRET) studies of PS-N-PMA-A micelles, modifies the structure of micellar shell. The study was aimed at understanding structure and behavior of micelles at different pH and ionic strength. The results show that the presence of hydrophobic tags has only a small influence on the overall structure of micelles but it strongly affects the distribution of PMA free ends. The hydrophobic labels (anthracenes) try to return into the shell and their certain fraction is localized close to the core/shell interface, which causes a fairly high NRET efficiency. The calculated and experimentally measured NRET efficiency were compared; their trends are reasonable at the semiquantitative level.


Polymers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Piegat ◽  
Anna Żywicka ◽  
Agata Niemczyk ◽  
Agata Goszczyńska

The antibacterial activity of N,O-acylated chitosan derivative with linoleic acid (CH_LA) was tested by disc and well diffusion, agar impregnation and microdilution methods against Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Helicobacter pylori strains. Hydrophobically modified chitosan (HMC) was expected to exhibit enhanced antibacterial activity and specific mucin interactions. Although diffusion tests have not indicated the antibacterial potential of chitosan (CH) or CH_LA, the results of the microdilution method demonstrated that tested polymers significantly reduced the amount of living bacteria cells in different concentrations depending on the microorganism. Additionally, CH_LA was characterized by enhanced antibacterial activity compared to CH, which may suggest a different mechanism of interaction with S. aureus and H. pylori. Furthermore, the UV-VIS analysis revealed that the amphiphilic character of derivative led to strong CH_LA–mucin interactions. The study proved the high potential of CH_LA in antibacterial applications, especially for the gastrointestinal tract.


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