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A novel foaming approach to prepare porous superabsorbent poly(sodium acrylic acid) resins
Author(s) -
Bao Jianshe,
Chen Si,
Wu Bozhen,
Ma Meng,
Shi Yanqin,
Wang Xu
Publication year - 2015
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.41298
Subject(s) - acrylic acid , pulmonary surfactant , ammonium bromide , cationic polymerization , polymer chemistry , sodium dodecyl sulfate , polyacrylic acid , polymerization , chemical engineering , triethanolamine , materials science , sodium , chemistry , organic chemistry , copolymer , polymer , analytical chemistry (journal) , engineering
A system composed of surfactant and foam stabilizer is used in preparing porous superabsorbent resins (SARs) of poly(sodium acrylic acid) (PAA‐Na), which is obtained by free‐radical solution polymerization of partially neutralized acrylic acid with mechanical agitation of eggbeater. Different types of surfactant, including anionic surfactant sodium n ‐dodecyl benzene sulfate (SDBS), cationic surfactant cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide, and nonionic surfactant alkylphenols poly(oxyethylene) (OP‐10), are used as blowing agent to produce pores by mechanical agitation, and triethanolamine (TEA) is used to act as foam stabilizer agent. The results show that a synergistic effect of SDBS with TEA is obtained and the packing density is decreased, which could be proved by the clearly porous morphology, and the water absorbing capacity of SARs is enhanced. As a result, such method can get PAA‐Na SARs without any organic solvents, which provides an environmentally beneficial way to prepare SARs for hygiene and biomedical products. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2015 , 132 , 41298.