聚(N-异丙基丙烯酰胺)水凝胶微球体积相变的研究

窄分散的聚（Ｎ 异丙基丙烯酰胺）水凝胶微球用乳液聚合方法制备，并用动态和静态光散射对其体积相变进行了研究．与水中聚（Ｎ 异丙基丙烯酰胺）线性单链比较，水中凝胶微球的体积相变温度较高，对温度的响应比较平缓．相变是连续的，有别于大块凝胶非连续的体积变化．在体积相变过程中，凝胶微球始终是密度均一的热力学稳定球体．从相变过程网络密度的变化可以确定，绝大部分的水在收缩过程被排了出来，但在紧缩的凝胶微球中仍含有约７０％的水．     

核壳结构三维有序水凝胶的制备

随着科学技术的发展 ,人们不断地寻求具有新特性、新功能的高分子材料 .聚合物凝胶作为一种智能高分子材料 ,受到极大的关注[1,2 ] .聚合物凝胶具有外场响应特性 ,其体积可随外界环境如溶剂、温度、电场、磁场、ｐＨ值、化学物质或光照等条件的改变而变化 ,因而在药物可控释放、吸附分离及传感器等方面具有潜在应用价值 .对聚合物凝胶进行图案化处理 ,使之成为有序结构 ,大大拓宽了凝胶的应用范围 .Ｈｕ等[3 ,4 ] 首先报道了环境响应水凝胶表面图案的调控技术 ,图案的特征尺寸在微米级 ,此类凝胶作为光栅 ,在光纤、传感器和光通信中具有潜在…     

碳气凝胶的制备研究

气凝胶是由纳米量级超细粒子或高聚物分子聚结构成的多孔性轻质固态材料 ,它在声学、光学、电学、动力学和低温热学等方面具有独特性质 ,因此受到多方面研究者的重视 [1～ 4 ] .碳气凝胶最先是由 Pekala等 [5] 在 80年代末研制成功的 ,其突出特点是网络连续 ,电导率高 ,孔洞微小且相互贯通 ,比表面大 ,密度变化范围大 ,是制造高性能电容器和电池的新一代理想材料[6 ,7] .这种材料的低温电导率随温度连续单调变化 ,在一定温区范围内 ( <1 0 0 K)其电阻温度敏感度远大于传统的掺碳玻璃、锗以及其它金属电阻温度计材料 ,可望成为一种理想的低…     

环境响应性凝胶的体积相变行为

综述了温敏性聚合物的低临界溶解温度和温度响应性凝胶体积相变温度的相互关系、体积相变的影响因素、体积相变的连续与否,并对如何调节凝胶的溶胀-收缩速率作了简要介绍。     

三羟甲基乙烷催化合成的工艺改进

三羟甲基乙烷(Trimethylolthane,简称TME)是重要的化学中间体和精细化工产品,广泛应用于生产高级醇酸树脂、聚酯和聚醚,制备高级润滑油、增塑剂、聚合物阻氧化剂和乳化剂等[1-3].此外,三羟甲基乙烷因其在相变过程中具有相变热较高、体积变化小、无腐蚀、热效率高等特点而倍受重视.近年来国内外对其进行了许多基础和应用的研究,在保暖纤维和服装中均得到广泛应用[4-7],并已延伸到医疗、保健、汽车、军用等领域[8].     

利用去湿现象制备图案化的离子刻蚀聚合物保护层

微米和纳米尺度的图案化表面的制备在微电子、光学、生物、化学和材料科学等领域具有重要的科学意义和应用价值 [1～ 3 ] .由于需要复杂昂贵的设备和苛刻的工作环境 ,光刻技术难以广泛应用于微电子以外的领域 ,因此 ,发展简单、便宜、适用于普通实验室 (尤其是化学实验室 )的表面图案化技术已成为一个涉及众多学科领域的课题 .在近年来不断涌现出来的物理、化学和生物的表面图案化技术 [4～ 6]中 ,最具代表性的是由 Whitesides等 [7]发明的以表面具有微观图案的聚二甲基硅氧烷 (PDMS)弹性体作为模具或印章的软光刻技术 .结合溶胶 -凝胶、…     

利用改进的本体溶胶-凝胶过程制备单组分二氧化硅单块

溶胶 -凝胶方法具有较低的反应温度 ,可在材料处理的最初阶段即纳米尺度上对材料的结构进行控制 ,所制备材料具有较高均一性和高纯度等优点 ,长期以来引起了众多科学家的关注[1～ 4 ] .然而 ,传统的溶胶 -凝胶工艺存在凝胶时间过长、体积收缩大、形状和尺寸无法控制、严重的龟裂、成本高以及环境污染等缺点 ,限制了其应用 .针对上述问题 ,我们改进了传统的溶胶 -凝胶过程 ,提出本体溶胶 -凝胶技术和复合本体溶胶 -凝胶技术 [1,2 ] .本体溶胶 -凝胶技术由于加入的凝胶促进剂碳酸盐与 Si O2 相容性差 ,存在块体成功率相对较低、表面不光滑和…     

磺酸基共聚凝胶在混合有机溶剂中的体积相变

2-丙烯酰胺基-2-甲基丙磺酸(AMPS)与甲基丙烯酸-2-羟基丙酯(HPM)在乙二醇/水(1:1,质量比)中70℃下进行共聚,AMPS/HPM(8:2,摩尔比)为该体系的恒比共聚点.在此组成加入交联剂N,N'-亚甲基双丙烯酰胺2%、3%和5%(摩尔分数)制备了凝胶试样GO2、GO3、GO5.它们在DMSO/THF混合溶剂中THF达55%～60%(体积百分数)时发生体积相变;在乙醇/THF混合溶剂中GO3的体积随THF的加入连续缩小,但不出现体积相变.此现象可用高分子链溶剂化层的变化以及低极性介质中离子对之间的偶极-偶极相互作用来说明.     

氟氢化钾固-固相变的变温红外光谱测定

氟氢化钾（KHF2）晶体随着温度的升高,在196℃发生可逆的固－固相变,晶型由低对称的西方晶系转变到高对称的立方晶系^[1]。由于氟氢化钾的固－固相变焓高,可应用于热能的贮存^[2],它的高温相可用做高电导率的离子导体^[3]。氟氢化钾的应用强烈依赖于本身的晶体性,因此利用各种光谱、X－射线衍射、热分析等技术手段以及量子化学计算对两种晶相结构的研究已日趋完善^[4,5]。而对于其固－固相变升温过程中的动态测定还未见报道,这是由于一般的实验手段难以对升温过程进行原位跟踪所致。变温红外光变法具有简便、快速、实用等优点,因而成为研究相变的有力工具^[6]。本文采用变温红外光谱技术测定了氟氢化钾在不同温度下的红外光谱,发现当温度升高到固－固相变温度时,氟氢化钾的各个特征吸收峰的位置、强度及峰形均发生较大程度的变化,从而为验证氟氢化钾的固－固相变机理提供了依据。     

聚丙烯酰胺胶凝动力学的研究

聚丙烯酰胺(PA)水溶液的胶凝作用已成功地应用于油井堵水及二、三次采油的压裂工艺~[1].1979年Hessert等~[2]用Cr(Ⅵ)还原生成的Cr(Ⅲ)使PA交联成三维凝胶并用于采油,Terry等~[3]用稳态剪切粘度法对影响该过程动力学的因素作过研究.Prud'hornme等~[4]用流变模数随时间的变化来表征胶凝的速率.Sydansk~[5,6]对Cr(Ⅲ)使PA水溶液发生胶凝的速率及     

Salt-induced protein phase transitions in drying drops

Protein phase transitions in drying sessile drops of protein-salt-water colloidal systems were studied by means of optical and atom-force microscopy. The following sequence of events was observed during drop drying: attachment of a drop to a glass support; redistribution of colloidal phase due to hydrodynamic centrifugal stream; protein ring formation around the edge; formation of protein spatial structures inside a protein ring that pass into gel in the middle of the drop; salt crystallization in the shrinking gel. It was assumed that rapid drying of a protein ring over the circle of high colloidal volume fraction and low strength of interparticle attraction leads to formation of colloidal glass, whereas gel forms only in the middle of the drop at very low protein volume fraction and strong attraction between the particles. Before gelation, colloidal particles form fractal clusters. In dried drops of salt-free protein solutions, no visual protein structures were observed. Structural evolution of protein in sessile drying drops of protein-salt aqueous colloidal solutions is discussed on the basis of experimental data.     

Chiral induction in quinoline-derived oligoamide foldamers: assignment of helical handedness and role of steric effects

Chiral groups attached to the end of quinoline-derived oligoamide foldamers give rise to chiral helical induction in solution. Using various chiral groups, diastereomeric excesses ranging from 9% to 83% could be measured by NMR and circular dichroism. Despite these relatively weak values and the fact that diastereomeric helices coexist and interconvert in solution, the right-handed or left-handed helical sense favored by the terminal chiral group could be determined unambiguously using X-ray crystallography. Assignment of chiral induction was performed in an original way using the strong tendency of racemates to cocrystallize, and taking advantage of slow helix inversion rates, which allowed one to establish that the stereomers observed in the crystals do correspond to the major stereomers in solution. The sense of chiral helical induction was rationalized on the basis of sterics. Upon assigning an Rs or Ss chirality to the stereogenic center using a nomenclature where the four substituents are ranked according to decreasing sizes, it is observed that Rs chirality always favors left-handed helicity and Ss chirality favors right-handed helicity (P). X-ray structures shed some light on the role of sterics in the mechanism of chiral induction. The preferred conformation at the stereocenter is apparently one where the bulkiest group should preferentially point away from the helix, the second largest group should be aligned with the helix backbone, and the smallest should point to the helix.     

两性纳米复合高吸水性树脂的结构与性能

通过丙烯酸钠、阳离子单体丙烯酰氧乙基三甲基氯化铵(DAC)与钠蒙脱土原位溶液聚合成功地制备了具有插层结构的两性纳米复合高吸水性树脂. 其吸水性树脂吸水倍率和凝胶的抗压强度相对于聚丙烯酸钠基质均有较大提高. 吸水倍率最高可达2 380 g/g, 而凝胶的抗压强度提高到基质的180%左右. 由于复合材料结构上具有两性基团, 表现出对环境pH值特殊的应答性. 同时, 阳离子单体DAC的加入影响体系纳米结构的形成.     

Diffusion of poly(ethylene glycol) and ectoine in NIPAAm hydrogels with confocal Raman spectroscopy

The diffusion behavior of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) in N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) hydrogels was investigated using confocal Raman spectroscopy with regard to temperature (25°C, 30°C and 35°C), PEG concentration (10 and 40?wt.%), PEG molecular weight (2,000 and 12,000?g/mol) and addition of the compatible solute ectoine (0.1 and 2?wt.%). Swelling and shrinking of the gels was observed by means of confocal Raman spectroscopy. The swelling behavior of NIPAAm gels in aqueous solutions of PEG and ectoine was found to resemble the swelling behavior in pure water with regard to temperature, i.e., the gel shrinks with increasing temperature. However, the presence and concentration of PEG and ectoine influence the swelling behavior by lowering the volume phase-transition temperature of the gel and facilitating shrinking. In some cases, a re-swelling of the gel was observed after the initial shrinking at the onset of PEG diffusion, which can be explained by PEG changing the chemical potential in the gel phase as it diffuses into the sample allowing the water to re-enter. The expulsion of water from the gel during shrinking and the so-caused increase of PNIPAAm and PEG concentrations in some cases led to the PEG diffusion seemingly being faster in more shrunken gels despite of their higher diffusion resistance.     

Grid pattern of nanothick microgel network

A novel grid pattern of two kinds of nanothick microgels was developed by alternate patterning using photolithography. At first, 100-microm-wide nanothick PAAm microgel stripes were grafted on a polystyrene surface by UV irradiation of the photoreactive azidobenzoyl-derivatized polyallylamine-coated surface through a photomask with 100-microm-wide stripes. Then, a second set of 100-microm-wide nanothick PAAc microgel stripes were grafted across the PAAm-grated polystyrene surface by UV irradiation of the photoreactive azidophenyl-derivatized poly(acrylic acid)-coated surface through a photomask placed perpendicularly to the first set of PAAm microgel stripes. The PAAc microgel stripe pattern was formed over the PAAm microgel stripe pattern. The cross angle of the two microgel stripes could be controlled by adjusting the position of the photomask when the second microgel pattern was prepared. Swelling and shrinking of the microgels were investigated by scanning probe microscopy (SPM) in an aqueous solution. SPM observation indicated that the thickness of the gel network was 100 to 500 nm. The regions containing PAAm, PAAc, and the PAAc-PAAm overlapping microgels showed different swelling and shrinking properties when the pH was changed. The PAAm microgel swelled at low pH and shrank at high pH whereas the PAAc microgel swelled at high pH and shrank at low pH. However, the PAAc-PAAm overlapping microgel did not change as significantly as did the two microgels, indicating that the swelling and shrinking of the two gels was partially offset. The pH-induced structural change was repeatedly reversible. The novel grid pattern of nanothick microgels will find applications in various fields such as smart actuators, artificial muscles, sensors, and drug delivery systems as well as in tissue engineering and so forth.     

Liesegang pattern formation in kappa-carrageenan gel

We report a new class of the spatial pattern formation process in which the gel plays essential roles. The system studied here is the solution of kappa-carrageenan in which potassium chloride is diffused. The solution transforms into the gel state with the diffusion of potassium chloride. Then the stripe pattern, which is perpendicular to the direction of the diffusion of potassium chloride, appears within the gel. The pattern thus formed in the gel is studied as a function of the concentration of the solution of potassium chloride. We find that the dense region of the stripe pattern consists of the liquid crystalline gel, whereas the dilute region is the amorphous gel. The transition from the amorphous gel to the liquid crystalline gel, hence, occurs in the gel state of kappa-carrageenan. The gel behaves as a pattern-forming substance as well as the supporting medium of the pattern in this system. The period and the thickness of the layers of liquid crystalline gel are analyzed. Both the period and the thickness of the layers are found to depend strongly on the concentration of the solution of potassium chloride.     

Controlling the Helix Handedness of ααβ‐Peptide Foldamers through Sequence Shifting

Peptide foldamers containing both cis ‐β‐aminocyclopentanecarboxylic acid and α‐amino acid residues combined in various sequence patterns (ααβ, αααβ, αβααβ, and ααβαααβ) were screened using CD and NMR spectroscopy for the tendency to form helices. ααβ‐Peptides were found to fold into an unprecedented and well‐defined 16/17/15/18/14/17‐helix. By extending the length of the sequence or shifting a fragment of the sequence from one terminus to another in ααβ‐peptides, the balance between left‐handed and right‐handed helix populations present in the solution can be controlled. Engineering of the peptide sequence could lead to compounds with either a strong propensity for the selected helix sense or a mixture of helical conformations of opposite senses.     

Self‐Assembly of a Chiral Lipid Gelator Controlled by Solvent and Speed of Gelation

Glutamine derivative 1 with two‐photon absorbing units has been synthesized and was found to show gelation ability in some solvents. Its self‐assembly in the gel phase could be controlled by the solvent and speed of gelation. For example, in DMSO the organogelator self‐assembled into H‐aggregates with weak exciton coupling between the aromatic moieties. On the other hand, in DMSO/diphenyl ether (1:9, v/v) the molecules formed 1D aggregates, but with strong exciton coupling due to the small distance between the chromophores. Moreover, the formation of these two kinds of aggregates could be adjusted by the ratio of DMSO to diphenyl ether. In DMSO/toluene, DMSO/butanol, DMSO/butyl acetate, and DMSO/acetic acid systems similar results were observed. Therefore, conversion of the packing model occurs irrespective of the nature of the solvent. Notably, a unique sign inversion in the CD spectra could be realized by controlling the speed of gelation in the DMSO/diphenyl ether (1:9, v/v) system. It was found that a low speed of gelation induces the gelator to adopt a packing model with strong π–π interactions between the aromatic units. Moreover, the gels, when excited at 800 nm, emit strong green fluorescence and the quantum chemical calculations suggest that intramolecular charge transfer leads to two‐photon absorption of the gelator molecule.     

Multifold curdlan gel formation by dialysis into aqueous solutions of metal salts

We have found that the dialysis of curdlan dissolved in alkaline solution into aqueous solutions of metal salts yielded multifold gel structures. Aqueous sodium chloride and potassium chloride as well as pure water induced isotropic gels. Aqueous calcium salts induced liquid crystalline gel with refractive index gradient/amorphous gel alternative structure. Aqueous salts of trivalent aluminum and ferric cations induced a rigid liquid crystalline gel, which shrank above a threshold concentration of each salt. On the other hand, Liesegang ring-like pattern was observed with aqueous solutions of mixed salts of calcium chloride and magnesium chloride. The patterns have been classified to discuss the mechanism of forming the variety of structures.     

Formation of a charge distribution within ionic gels by immobilized enzyme reaction: experimental observations and mathematical simulations

Thermally responsive cationic gels with immobilized urease, in the shape of a small cylinder with diameter 290 - 640 μm, were prepared via gelation of an aqueous monomer solution containing the enzyme. We used N-isopropylacrylamide and N-vinylimidazole as a thermo-sensitive and a pH-sensitive monomer, respectively. Diameters at different positions of the cylinder were microscopically measured in a cell through which substrate solution (pH 4; 35°C) was passed at a constant flow rate; thus, both substrate concentration and pH at the gel surface were maintained at a constant level. It was found that the gel undergoes a shrinking change due to an enzymatically induced increase in pH within the gel phase. There was a marked position dependence of the shrinking degree; the diameter at the center of the cylinder was smaller than those at the top and at the bottom, but the diameters at the top and bottom were identical with each other. This trend was observed at immobilized enzyme concentrations < 1 mg/mL, even after the establishment of swelling equilibrium. By mathematical simulations with a reaction-diffusion model, these results were understood in connection with a charge distribution which is formed as a result of an enzymatically generated pH gradient within the gel phase.