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Influence of various reaction media on the thermal and rheological properties of poly(acrylamide‐ co‐N ‐hexadecylacrylamide)
Author(s) -
Hassanajili Shadi,
Abdollahi Elaheh
Publication year - 2014
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.39939
Subject(s) - copolymer , polymer chemistry , thermogravimetric analysis , thermal stability , differential scanning calorimetry , sodium dodecyl sulfate , materials science , pulmonary surfactant , polymerization , acrylamide , sulfonic acid , polyacrylamide , intrinsic viscosity , chemical engineering , polymer , chemistry , organic chemistry , composite material , physics , engineering , thermodynamics
A hydrophobically modified polyacrylamide (PAM) was synthesized by the copolymerization of acrylamide (Am) and N ‐hexadecylacrylamide (hAm) through solution copolymerization in a polar organic solvent. Polymer synthesis was performed in three nonaqueous media, including dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), a mixture of DMSO and an anionic surfactant such as sodium dodecyl sulfate, and a mixture of DMSO and an acidic surfactant such as dodecyl benzene sulfonic acid. The obtained copolymer, poly(acrylamide‐ co‐N‐ hexadecylacrylamide) [poly(Am‐ co ‐hAm)], was characterized by 1 H‐NMR. The physical properties of poly(Am‐ co ‐hAm)s synthesized in different media were compared with those of PAM and with each other by viscosity measurement, X‐ray diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis, and differential scanning calorimetry. We investigated the ways in which the polymerization medium affected the hydrophobic distribution within the resulting copolymer structure. This aspect, in turn, should have altered the solution properties and the microstructure of the copolymer. For this purpose, we studied the viscometric behavior in diluted solutions, the thermal behavior and thermal stability of the copolymers, and finally, the crystalline structure of the copolymers. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 2014 , 131 , 39939.