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The adsorption of water vapor on super absorbent product at low temperatures and low mass
Author(s) -
Bakass M.,
Bellat J. P.,
Mokhlisse A.,
Bertrand G.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.23568
Subject(s) - adsorption , polymer , water vapor , diffusion , molecule , chemical engineering , materials science , hysteresis , polymer chemistry , chemistry , thermodynamics , organic chemistry , composite material , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering
The adsorption isotherms of water vapor on super absorbent product have the same form of type III isotherm at ambient temperature with the hysteresis phenomena. For temperatures lower than ambient, the isotherms become deformed because of the chains effect. The polymer is characterized by a multilayer adsorption, which occurs before a full‐course is complete. During adsorption reactions, the polymer undergoes rearrangement polymeric network, which results from a cooperative diffusion of the water molecules and from a chain spacing followed by an expansion of the polymeric network. Three types of water molecules adsorbed on polymer were identified: strongly dependent water, adsorbed water, and the water only trapped between the macromolecular chains. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 100: 1450–1456, 2006