AA-AM-AN三元共聚物的合成及其溶液性能的研究

采用自由基水溶液共聚法制备了水溶性丙烯酸－丙烯酰胺－丙烯腈共聚物。对聚合反应温度、引发剂用量、尿素用量、聚合物浓度、电解质浓度、剪切速率、温度等因素对聚合物溶液性能的影响进行了研究。结果表明,合成的水溶性聚合物具有良好的增稠作用及耐温抗盐抗剪切等性能。     

含二十二烷基聚氧乙烯醚甲基丙烯酸酯功能单体的缔合型乳液增稠剂的制备及表征

以甲基丙烯酸、丙烯酸乙酯、邻苯二甲酸二烯丙酯和不同量的功能单体二十二烷基聚氧乙烯醚甲基丙烯酸酯(BEM)为原料,采用半连续乳液聚合方法合成了疏水改性碱溶性缔合型增稠剂乳液.测定了增稠剂乳液的粘度、透光率、乳胶粒粒径及其分布等性能,考察了不同固含量下乳液粘度和透光率随pH的变化情况.结果表明随着BEM用量的增加,乳胶粒粒径逐渐增大.随着pH值的增加,乳液的粘度首先迅速升高,然后缓慢下降.与不含BEM的增稠剂乳液相比,当乳液固含量大于0.5%,BEM含量占单体量低于5.0wt%时,该缔合型增稠剂的增稠效果和抗剪切性有显著提高,BEM含量较高(8.0wt%或更高)时反而使增稠效果和抗剪切性变差.在此基础上研究了增稠剂对苯丙乳液的增稠效应,结果显示BEM含量占单体量的2.5wt%时,对苯丙乳液的增稠作用最好.与使用功能单体三苯乙基苯酚聚氧乙烯醚甲基丙烯酸酯改性的增稠剂相比,含BEM的增稠剂在BEM用量较少的情况下就能起到明显的增稠效果.     

丙烯酰胺型阴离子表面活性单体与丙烯酰胺共聚物水溶液的流变特性

以丙烯酰胺型阴离子表面活性单体2-丙烯酰胺基十四烷基磺酸钠(NaAMC14S)为共单体,与丙烯酰胺(AM)的水溶液均相共聚合,使NaAMC14S的浓度分别处于临界胶束浓度上下,分别制备了具有无规结构与微嵌段结构的两类共聚物;用红外光谱法对共聚物的结构进行了表征,使用乌氏粘度法测定了特性粘数,相对表示出了共聚物的分子量;采用荧光探针法与表观粘度法重点研究了两类共聚物的疏水缔合性与水溶液的流变特性.研究结果表明,具有微嵌段结构的共聚物具有很强的疏水缔合性,当其水溶液的浓度达0.2wt%后,表观粘度迅速提高;其水溶液的切力变稀行为具有明显的可逆性,表现出强的抗剪切性能.本研究中特别发现,具有微嵌段结构的共聚物其盐水溶液的表观粘度远高于纯水溶液的表观粘度,当共聚物浓度为0.3wt%、CaCl2浓度为2wt%时,溶液的表观粘度竟然提高了3个数量级,表现出独特的正性盐敏性(即遇盐变稠).     

一种水溶性疏水缔合聚合物二临界缔合行为研究

对三元共聚疏水缔合聚合物（丙烯酰胺／十八烷基二甲基烯丙基氯化铵／苯乙烯）的临界缔合浓度进行研究,发现其具有二临界缔合现象以及其在二临界缔合浓度附近不同的耐温抗盐的流变行为。研究结果表明,该疏水缔合聚合物的第一临界缔合浓度（C1^＊）为500mg／L,第二临界缔合浓度（C2^＊）为2400mg／L;C2^＊附近聚合物溶液的耐温性能较差;抗盐性能表现出三种不同的情况：随着盐质量浓度的增加,C〈C1^＊时,溶液粘度下降;C1^＊〈C〈C2^＊时,溶液粘度先增加后下降;C〉C2^＊时,溶液粘度先快速增加,后缓慢增加,最后下降。     

疏水基改性聚丙烯酰胺的合成及溶液性质

利用自由基胶束聚合法,由丙烯酰胺和甲基丙烯酸十八酯共聚合成了疏水缔合型水溶性聚合物.通过红外光谱表征了共聚物的结构,考察了共聚物浓度、盐浓度、剪切速率以及温度对共聚物溶液性能的影响.试验结果表明,聚合物质量分数大于临界缔合浓度(2%)时,溶液的粘度急剧增大;疏水缔合聚合物溶液的表观粘度随着溶液中NaCl质量分数的增加而增大.     

丙烯酰胺-苯乙烯双亲嵌段共聚物水溶液的粘度性能

通过改变丙烯酰胺 (AM)与苯乙烯 (St)两单体的投料比 ,在微乳液介质中制备了分子组成系列变化的丙烯酰胺 苯乙烯双亲嵌段共聚物 (PAM b PSt) ,使用旋转粘度计测定了共聚物水溶液的表观粘度 ,详细考察了共聚物浓度、共聚物链结构、剪切速率、盐度及温度等因素对共聚物水溶液表观粘度的影响规律 .研究结果表明 ,由于PAM b PSt分子链中的PSt疏水嵌段链段之间具有强的疏水缔合作用 ,导致其具有独特的流变性能 .当共聚物水溶液的浓度高于某一临界值后 ,疏水缔合作用以分子间的缔合为主 ,大分子链之间会形成动态物理交联网络 ,增大了流体力学体积 ,使PAM b PSt水溶液可产生良好的增稠性能 ;疏水缔合作用是一吸热过程 ,升高温度有利于分子间的缔合 ,因此PAM b PSt水溶液具有良好的耐温性 ;聚合物水溶液中盐类物质的存在 ,会增强溶剂的极性 ,有利于分子间的缔合 ,使PAM b PSt水溶液具有良好的耐盐性 .     

氧化石墨烯对聚乙烯醇/硼酸水凝胶流变性能的影响

研究了氧化石墨烯(GO)对聚乙烯醇(PVA)/硼酸(borate)水凝胶线性及非线性流变性能的影响。 通过扫描电子显微镜、硼谱核磁共振波谱以及流变研究了水凝胶的流变性能。 结果表明,GO质量浓度在稀溶液区时,GO片层与PVA链间通过硼酸根离子形成了具有弹性活性的缔合点,有效地提高了水凝胶的平台模量、松弛时间和零切粘度;当GO进一步增加到亚浓溶液区,部分的交联剂被GO的团聚体捕获并处于非弹性活性的缔合状态,处于有效缔合状态的交联剂变少,导致平台模量、松弛时间和零切粘度降低。 稳态剪切测试下,样品在剪切增稠区的粘度增加随着GO添加量的增加明显加强,这与剪切场下取向的氧化石墨烯片层参与网络结构的重排有关。     

疏水缔合效应对聚丙烯酰胺类水溶液结构和流变性质的影响

以聚合物驱油为背景,研究了部分水解聚丙烯酰胺(HPAM)和缔合型部分水解聚丙烯酰胺(AHPAM)水溶液的结构与流变性质的差别.通过粘度法和静态激光光散射法得到了所分析的聚丙烯酰胺的分子量,用动态激光光散射法和粘度法分析了特定AHPAM分子缔合形态,并用流变学法测定了AHPAM在地层温度与矿化度条件下的线性粘弹性与非线性流变特性.着重讨论了临界缔合浓度的概念,研究了结构和流变性质的关系,以及分析了缔合对聚合物驱油的可能影响.实验结果表明,AHPAM水溶液在宽浓度范围存在分子缔合;一般临界缔合浓度的概念实际反映在进入亚浓溶液范围分子间缔合的效应,剪切速率约为10 s-1时,剪切粘度突降数倍,反映缔合结构在剪切场中的变化,该现象在高缠结浓度下较不明显;拉伸粘度随拉伸速率变化与HPAM定性不同,该拉伸特性反映了疏水缔合近程作用的本质.     

接枝丙烯酰胺共聚物的溶液性能和微结构

采用水溶液自由基聚合法合成了新型的丙烯酰胺(AM)/4-乙烯苄基辛烷基酚聚氧乙烯(18)醚(VE)/2-丙烯酰胺基-2-甲基丙磺酸钠(NaAMPS)接枝共聚物(PAE),以解决驱油聚合物抗高盐性能差的难题.通过傅里叶变换红外(FT-IR)光谱和核磁共振氢谱(1HNMR)对PAE的分子结构进行了表征.PAE盐溶液显示了两次盐增稠和热增稠效应.对于VE摩尔分数为0.93%的PAE,当其质量浓度为2.0g·L-1时,于30℃在5.0和90.0g·L-1NaCl溶液中的表观粘度分别为1167.0和338.0mPa·s,显示了优异的增粘和抗盐能力;并且于85℃在5.0g·L-1NaCl溶液中的表观粘度仍达685.0mPa·s,显示了良好的耐温性能.PAE还具有较好的表、界面活性.扫描电镜(SEM)照片显示,PAE在纯水中形成了独特的缔合结构,而且在盐水溶液中也形成了连续的微结构,这表明在水中伸展的分子链在盐水中的构象仍然较伸展.     

聚左旋乳酸遥爪离聚物的静态结晶及剪切诱导结晶行为

遥爪离聚物体系由于易形成相对均匀的可逆网络，受到高性能材料领域学者的广泛关注。通过引入磺酸根和Na+反离子，设计合成了一种分子链轻微缠结的聚左旋乳酸遥爪离聚物，由于离子聚集的“锚定”作用，其静态结晶动力学显著延迟。通过时温叠加得到的样品线性黏弹准主曲线显示出宽平台和末端松弛延迟的特点，这反映了强缔合的特点。在韦森堡数大于1的剪切流场作用下，该材料表现出剪切增稠和结晶加速行为。研究发现，增稠是剪切诱导结晶引起的，增稠可能发生在两个区域，即在剪切应力稳定之前或者之后，并且增稠发生在剪切应力稳定之后所需的临界功明显更高，这可能与稳定后缔合点连续的解离和再缔合导致的能量损耗相关。     

Oil-in-water emulsions stabilized by hydrophobically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose: adsorption and thickening effect

The preparation and stability of oil-in-water emulsions stabilized by hydrophobically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose (HMHEC) were investigated. The rheological measurements of aqueous HMHEC were studied. It was found that HMHEC showed much better thickening ability than the parent (HEC) from which it was derived, which is caused by the association of the hydrophobic alkyl chains, which are absent in HEC. The oscillatory experimental results of the emulsions showed that at higher concentrations, HMHEC could form an elastic gel, which has good thixotropic properties. The stability and droplet size distribution were investigated by visual observation, photomicrograph and a laser-scattering particle size distribution analyzer. The adsorption of HMHEC at the oil-water interface and the surface of emulsion droplets due to the penetration of the alkyl chains in HMHEC into the oil phase were confirmed by visual observation, the interfacial tension method and an in situ environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM). The stability of emulsions prepared using HMHEC is based on both an associative thickening mechanism caused by alkyl chains in HMHEC and the adsorption of HMHEC at the oil-water interface, which can form a solid film preventing coalescence of the droplets.     

Novel approach to synthesizing hydrophobically associating copolymer using template copolymerization: the synthesis and behaviors of acrylamide and 4-(omega-propenoyloxyethoxy) benzoic acid copolymer

Hydrophobically associating copolymers of acrylamide (AM) with a small amount of 4-(omega-propenoyloxyethoxy) benzoic acid (PEBA, <2.5%) were synthesized by template copolymerization in the presence of poly(allylammonium chloride) (PAAC) as a template in an aqueous medium. These template copolymers exhibited remarkable thickening properties due to the effective hydrophobic association, which were similar to those copolymers with a multiblock structure obtained by the micellar process. The pH of the reaction medium and the molecular weight of the template strongly influenced the thickening properties of the products. In the experimental range, the higher the PEBA content, the larger the thickening capacity of these hydrophobic copolymers. The aggregate behaviors of these copolymers were studied by fluorescence, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and light scattering techniques. The apparent critical interpolymer aggregate concentration (cac) of the copolymer solution was about 0.5 g/dL. As the concentration of the copolymer became higher than the cac, the aggregates changed their morphology from small hollow spheres to big flower-shaped aggregates. All the above results indicated that the template copolymerization gave access to a very simple and powerful means for the preparation of hydrophobically associating copolymers and other functional polymer materials.     

Interaction between a nonionic surfactant and a hydrophobically modified 2-hydroxyethyl cellulose

Interaction between the nonionic surfactant Tergitol 15-S-7 and hydrophobically modified 2-hydroxyethyl cellulose (HMHEC) was studied rheologically in a semidilute regime of HMHEC. The low-shear viscosity of HMHEC was increased with addition of surfactant from 25 to 250 ppm, in which the critical micelle concentration of surfactant was near 39 ppm, and then decreased to a value smaller than that of pure HMHEC with further addition of surfactant to 1000 ppm. An interesting shear-induced phenomenon was observed. The steady-state shear measurements show that there exist crossovers between viscosity-shear rate curves of HMHEC solutions with and without surfactant added, whereas it was not observed in the HEC-surfactant systems. Moreover, added Tergitol 15-S-7 reversed the temperature effect on the viscosity of the HMHEC solution. That is, increasing temperature to or near the cloud point raises the viscosity of the HMHEC-surfactant aggregates, in contrast to the viscosity decrease in the pure HMHEC solutions. A possible mechanism based on the necklace model and the clouding phenomenon is conjecturally introduced to explain such phenomena.     

Nonlinear rheology of aqueous solutions of hydrophobically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose with nonionic surfactant

Shear thickening and strain hardening behavior of hydrophobically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose (HMHEC) aqueous solutions was experimentally examined. We focused on the effects of polymer concentration, temperature, and addition of nonionic surfactant. It is found that HMHEC shows stronger shear thickening at intermediate shear rates in a certain concentration range. In this range, the zero-shear viscosity scales with polymer concentration as eta(0) approximately c(5.7), showing a stronger concentration dependence than for more concentrated solutions. The critical shear stress for complete disruption of the transient network follows tau(c) approximately c(1.62) in the concentrated regime. Dynamic tests of the transient network on addition of surfactants show that the enhanced zero-shear viscosity is due to an increase in network junction strength, rather than their number, which in fact decreases. The reduction in the junction number could partly explain the weak variation of strain hardening extent for low surfactant concentrations, because of longer and looser bridging chain segments, and hence lesser nonlinear chain stretching.     

Characterization,solution properties,and morphologies of a hydrophobically associating cationic terpolymer

The acrylamide‐based terpolymers (PADB) with 4‐butylstyrene (BST) as the hydrophobic monomer and dimethyldiallyammonium chloride (DMDAAC) were synthesized by the micellar free radical technique. The polymer was determined by UV, FT‐IR and ¹HNMR, and the hydrophobic microblock structure of PADB was characterized successfully by the conventional DSC measurement. The use of DMDAAC improves the water solubility and intermolecular association of terpolymers. The feed amount of BST affects greatly the apparent viscosity of PADB solution. The polymer exhibits good viscosification property, salt resistance, temperature‐thickening, thixotropy, pseudoplastic behavior and shear‐thickening at low shear rate. The apparent viscosities of PADB solution remarkably increase by the addition of a small amount of surfactant. AFM measurements show that hydrophobic aggregates have been formed in 0.1 g dL^?1 PADB aqueous solution, indicative of strong associations of hydrophobic groups, which are reinforced with increasing PADB concentration. The microstructures of PADB are disrupted by the addition of small amounts of salt, resulting in the decrease in solution viscosity. However, with increasing NaCl concentration, the tree‐like associating structures are formed, leading to the increase in the solution viscosity of PADB. The AFM results reveal that the solution properties of PADB are due to the associating structures in the aqueous solution and brine solution. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 45: 826–839, 2007     

Nonionic surfactant and temperature effects on the viscosity of hydrophobically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose solutions

Nonionic surfactant and temperature effects on the viscosity of hydrophobically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose (HMHEC) solutions are investigated experimentally. Weak shear thickening at intermediate shear rates takes place for HMHEC at moderate concentrations and becomes more significant at lower temperatures. While this amphiphilic polymer in surfactant-free solution does not turn turbid by heating to 95 degrees C, its mixture with nonionic surfactant shows a lower cloud point temperature than does a pure surfactant solution. For some mixture cases, phase separation takes place at temperatures as low as 2 degrees C. The drop of cloud point temperature is attributed to an additional attractive interaction between mixed micelles via chain bridging. With increasing temperature, the viscosity of an HMHEC-surfactant mixture in aqueous solution first decreases but then rises considerably until around the cloud point. The observed viscosity increase can be explained by the interchain association because of micellar aggregation.     

Association in Unsalted and Brine Solutions of a Water-Soluble Terpolymer with <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-Vinylbenzyl-Terminated Octylphenoxy Poly(ethylene oxide)

An associating terpolymer (PAOE) of acrylamide (AM), sodium 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulphonate (NaAMPS), and a novel macromonomer: p-vinylbenzyl-terminated octylphenoxy poly(ethylene oxide) (VOE, degree of polymerization: 4) was synthesized by aqueous free-radical copolymerization. The PAOE polymer exhibited excellent thickening properties in unsalted and brine solutions. The electrostatic shielding of repulsive interactions of the polymer was much weaker than that of the linear associating polymers with small hydrophobic monomers. This brine solution exhibited unexpected salt-thickening behaviors twice, and good resistance to salt and ageing. The intermolecular hydrophobic association in unsalted and brine PAOE solutions, as functions of polymer and NaCl concentration, were characterized by fluorescence spectroscopy. With the addition of NaCl, the polymer chains were comparatively extended and continuous network structures were formed via the intermolecular hydrophobic association in brine solutions as well as in unsalted solutions at 0.15–0.25 g⋅dL⁻¹ PAOE, as observed by a scanning electron microscope (SEM).     

Gels of hydrophobically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose cross-linked by amylose. Competition with cyclodextrin

Previous work has shown that amylose (AM) can cross-link hydrophobically modified polymers by inclusion complexation, whereby thermoreversible cold-setting gels are formed. In this work, the competition between AM and cyclodextrin (CD) for the formation of inclusion complexes with hydrophobically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose (HMHEC) is investigated. A detailed study of viscosity, NMR self-diffusion, and chemical shifts of the two-component mixture, CD and HMHEC, was performed. The results imply that 2:1 (CD:polymer hydrophobe) complexes may be formed. The three-component mixtures, HMHEC/AM/CD, were investigated by rheology, NMR self-diffusion, and intensities of the NMR resonance peaks. The CD molecules competed efficiently with the AM molecules, as seen by a decreased storage modulus, an increased self-diffusion of AM and HMHEC, and increased NMR intensities of the HMHEC hydrophobes, as the concentration of CD increased in the solution. A high concentration of CD is needed in the mixtures to inhibit all interactions between HMHEC and AM, and it was shown that there still is an effect of AM at excess CD concentration in the mixtures.