Sorption of Zinc Ions by a Nonwoven Polypropylene Material Modified with Poly(acrylic acid) Grafted to the Fiber Surface: The Role of Grafting Density and Hydrogen Bonds

A microfiber carboxylic cationite is prepared via the photoinduced polymerization of acrylic acid on the surface of nonwoven polypropylene material. Changes in the amount of the graft polymer (grafting density) and in the strength of hydrogen bonds between its carboxyl groups, depending on the polymerization time, are investigated by attenuated total internal reflectance FTIR spectroscopy. The sorption properties of the obtained ionite in the acidic (COOH) and salt (COONa) forms with respect to Zn²⁺ ions at various grafting densities are studied. The sorption capacity of the investigated cationite in its salt form is higher than that in the acidic form, and this difference increases quickly with the grafting density. The data of IR spectroscopy showed that this behavior is caused by the formation of stronger hydrogen bonds between COOH groups of the grafted polyacrylic acid, complicating their ionization and, thus, preventing the ion exchange.     

Feasibility of density functional methods to predict dielectric properties of polymers

Feasibility of density functional theory (DFT) to predict dielectric properties such as polarizability of saturated polymers is investigated. Small saturated molecules, methane and propane, which is a monomer of polypropylene chain, are used in testing the methods. Results for polarizabilities based on several density functionals together with different basis sets are compared and contrasted with each other, with results by Hartree-Fock and second-order Moller-Plesset perturbation theory, as well as experimental data. The generalized gradient approximation PW91 method together with the 6-311++G(**) basis set is found to be the most suitable method, in terms of sufficient accuracy and computational efficiency, to calculate polarizabilities for large oligomers of polypropylene. The dielectric constant is then determined using the calculated polarizabilities and the Clausius-Mossotti equation. The molecular DFT methods at the PW916-311++G(**) level together with the Clausius-Mossotti equation give dielectric constants for saturated polymers such as polypropylene in good accordance with the experimental values.     

Preparation of anion exchanger by amination of acrylic acid grafted polypropylene nonwoven fiber and its ion-exchange property

To develop the polymeric adsorbent that possess anionic exchangeable function, PP-g-AA-Am fibers were prepared by photoinduced grafting of acrylic acid (AA) onto polypropylene (PP) nonwoven fibers and subsequent conversion of carboxyl group in grafted AA to an amine (Am) group by reaction with diethylene triamine (DETA). The amination of grafted AA increased with increase in the degree of grafting, the reaction time and temperature of the chemical modification process. Catalytic effect of metal chlorides such as AlCl(3) and FeCl(3) on the amination of grafted AA was significant but not essential to lead the amination. FT-IR and solid (13)C NMR data indicate that amine group was introduced into PP-g-AA fiber through amide linkage between grafted AA and DETA. The anion exchange capacity of PP-g-AA-Am fiber increased with increase in the degree of amination, but reached maximum value at about 60% amination of 150% grafted AA. PP-g-AA-Am fiber showed much higher maximum capacity for PO(4)-P and a similar capacity for NO(3)-N compared to commercial anion resins. Furthermore, the PP-g-AA-Am fiber also has adsorption ability for cations because of unaminated residual carboxyl group.     

Polarizabilities and dipole moments of benzaldehyde, benzoic acid and oxalic acid in polar and nonpolar solvents

The purpose of this report is to calculate the orientation polarizability of benzaldehyde, benzoic acid and oxalic acid in polar and nonpolar solvents. The calculations are based on the knowledge of permanent dipole moment of the solutions. Other important physical quantities such as refractive index, density, specific volume, dielectric constant, molar polarization and molar refractivity are also calculated. Dipole moments of the solutions are calculated by using measured dielectric constants of the solutions. The dielectric constant measurements were made at 100 kHz. Relationships between the polarizability and concentration, specific volume, dielectric constant and dipole moment of the solutions are suggested.     

Investigation of the two-step spin crossover complex Fe[5-NO2-sal-(1,4,7,10)] using density functional theory

A quantum chemical study of the Fe[5-NO2-sal-(1,4,7,10)] ((1,10-bis(5-nitrosalicylaldehyde)-1,4,7,10-tetra-ezdecane-O,O',N,N',N' ',N' ')iron(II)) molecule was performed using density functional theory (DFT). Starting from the different X-ray crystallographic structures, geometry optimizations have been performed. These calculations confirmed the conformational isomerism of this complex in each spin states of the molecule ((1)A(1g) and (5)T(2g)). Each employed DFT method (B3LYP, B3LYP*, BP86, HCTH407) reproduced correctly the structural differences between the two calculated conformers when compared to the experimental structures. Furthermore, electronic polarizabilities have been calculated in each spin state and for each conformer. These calculations revealed a higher polarizability in the singlet state in agreement with the measured higher dielectric constant in this state.     

聚丙烯微孔膜表面的等离子体接枝

通过氢气氛等离子体处理，在聚丙烯微孔膜表面接枝了聚丙烯酸，改善了膜表面的亲水性。接枝率与等离子体放电功率、放电时间和溶液浓度有关，微孔膜内外表面及不同位置接枝效率有差别。接枝后微也膜的表面孔径减少了。     

Energies of ions in water and nanopores within density functional theory

Accurate calculations of electrostatic potentials and treatment of substrate polarizability are critical for predicting the permeation of ions inside water-filled nanopores. The ab initio molecular dynamics method, based on density functional theory (DFT), accounts for the polarizability of materials, water, and solutes, and it should be the method of choice for predicting accurate electrostatic energies of ions. In practice, DFT coupled with the use of periodic boundary conditions in a charged system leads to large energy shifts. Results obtained using different DFT packages may vary because of the way pseudopotentials and long-range electrostatics are implemented. Using maximally localized Wannier functions, we apply robust corrections that yield relatively unambiguous ion energies in select molecular and aqueous systems and inside carbon nanotubes. Large binding energies are predicted for ions in metallic carbon nanotube arrays, while Na+ and Cl- energies are found to exhibit asymmetry in water that is smaller than but comparable with those computed using nonpolarizable water force fields.     

Radiation graft post-polymerization of sodium styrene sulfonate onto polyethylene

Post-irradiation grafting of sodium styrene sulfonate (SSS) in the presence of acrylic acid (AA) has been investigated on polyethylene (PE) pre-exposed to gamma radiation at room temperature in the air. Special attention was paid to the effect of low molecular weight salt additives on the kinetics of graft copolymerization of SSS and AA. The presence of SSS links in the grafted PE copolymers was detected by the methods of UV and FTIR spectroscopy. Based on the FITR spectroscopy and element analysis data, a mechanism was proposed for graft copolymerization of SSS and AA onto PE. The mechanical properties of the graft copolymers were studied. It was established that PE copolymers grafted with sulfonic acid and carboxyl groups have higher strength characteristics (16.3 MPa) compared to the samples containing only carboxyl groups (11 MPa).     

含季铵基离子交换纤维的制备研究

以辐射接枝丙烯酸(AA)后的聚丙烯(PP)无纺布(PP-g-AA)为基材,采用紫外引发的方法接枝甲基丙烯酰氧乙基三甲基氯化铵(DMC),建立了一种制备阴离子交换纤维的新方法,得到了PP-g-AA-DMC纤维.研究了丙烯酸接枝率、DMC浓度、溶剂种类、光照时间,浸泡时间等因素对DMC接枝率的影响,结果表明,DMC的接枝率随着丙烯酸接枝率、DMC浓度、光照时间和纤维浸泡时间的增加而增大.接枝前后纤维的红外光谱分析表明,DMC被成功接枝在PP-g-AA基材上.吸附性能测定结果表明,纤维对水中以阴阳离子存在的金属铬均具有较好的吸附性能.     

Characterization of N-isopropyl acrylamide/acrylic acid grafted polypropylene nonwoven fabric developed by radiation-induced graft polymerization

Radiation-induced graft copolymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) and acrylic acid (AA) mixture was carried out on polypropylene nonwoven fabric to develop a thermosensitive material and has been found to affect the thermal and physical characteristics of fabric. The grafted fabrics with different monomer ratios were characterized by thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), X-ray diffraction (XRD), contact angle and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Results of FTIR clearly indicated that poly(acrylic acid) and poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) were successfully grafted onto the membrane surface. TGA results showed that the thermal stability of PP fabric increased after grafting of NIPAAm/AA. The crystallinity values from DSC and XRD were found to decrease with increase in degree of grafting because of the addition of grafted chains within the noncrystalline region. The decrease in contact angles of the grafted fabric with an increase of the degree of grafting shows that PNIPAAm/PAA exists as the hydrophilic component. The increase in surface roughness after grafting was observed by AFM.     

Accurate determination of individual lanthanides in biological materials by NAA with pre-and post-irradiation separation

An intelligent hydrogel with both pH and temperature sensitivity was obtained by grafting acrylic acid and dimethylaminoethylmethacrylate onto preirradiated polypropylene (PP) film by two-step reactions. The effect of first and second reactions on the degree of grafting was studied. The grafted sample films were checked by Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometry in the attenuated total reflectance mode. The morphology of the PP samples was observed by scanning electron microscope in different conditions before and after grafting, respectively.     

聚乙烯与丙烯酸的溶液接枝聚合

以过氧化苯甲酰为引发剂，二甲苯为溶剂，进行了丙烯酸与低密度聚乙烯的溶液接枝聚合，研究了ＢＰＯ用量、溶液浓度以及丙烯酸用量对接枝率的影响。聚乙烯接枝了丙烯酸后与铝的粘结强度显著增大，当接枝率为７．２％时，剥离强度由未接枝时的１９３Ｎ／ｍ，提高到９８４Ｎ／ｍ。     

Synthesis and characterization of bigraft copolymers based on grafted type peracid polymer

In this study, a radiation-induced copolymer, namely, polyethylene-g-acrylic acid and EVA-g-acrylic acid, in the form of a membrane, particulate, or tube was used as a substrate. The carboxyl groups of the grafted acrylic chains were oxidized into peracids. Optimal conditions for the oxidation, including the catalyst, reaction time, and temperature were investigated. Novel bigraft copolymers were then synthesized from the grafted polymeric peracid. A third component (e.g., 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) was grafted through the decomposition of peracid groups. Abnormality in morphology of the acrylic acid grafted and HEMA bigraft membrane was investigated by SEM and TEM observation, which showed the levelling effect of the third component and manifested a third circular domain generated inside the membrane at high degree of grafting.     

Surface modification of polymers. I. Vapour phase photografting with acrylic acid

Surfaces of low density polyethylene, high density polyethylene, and polystyrene have been modified by grafting with acrylic acid. Benzophenone and acrylic acid in the vapor phase were UV-irradiated in the presence of a polymer substrate. Grafting with acrylic acid took place in a thin layer on the surface, thus increasing the wettability of the polymer. After 5 min of irradiation, the contact angle against water had decreased to 20° for polystyrene and 50° for the polyethylene samples. ESCA measurements on samples irradiated for 5 min showed a 90% poly(acrylic acid) coverage of the surface for polystyrene, 63% for low density polyethylene, and 56% for high density polyethylene. Acetone or ethanol were used as carriers of monomer and initiator. Acetone was able to initiate grafting and was found to promote and direct grafting to the surface. The stability of the acrylic acid grafted surfaces was studied by contact angle measurements and ESCA. At room temperature, the grafted layer is confined to the surface, but when the material was heated in air the surface was reshaped into a hydrophobic one. The process was reversible. In aqueous surroundings at elevated temperatures the hydrophilic character of the surface was restored.     

Electro-optical parameters of bond polarizability model for aluminosilicates

Electro-optical parameters (EOPs) of bond polarizability model (BPM) for aluminosilicate structures were derived from quantum-chemical DFT calculations of molecular models. The tensor of molecular polarizability and the derivatives of the tensor with respect to the bond length are well reproduced with the BPM, and the EOPs obtained are in a fair agreement with available experimental data. The parameters derived were found to be transferable to larger molecules. This finding suggests that the procedure used can be applied to systems with partially ionic chemical bonds. The transferability of the parameters to periodic systems was tested in molecular dynamics simulation of the polarized Raman spectra of alpha-quartz. It appeared that the molecular Si-O bond EOPs failed to reproduce the intensity of peaks in the spectra. This limitation is due to large values of the longitudinal components of the bond polarizability and its derivative found in the molecular calculations as compared to those obtained from periodic DFT calculations of crystalline silica polymorphs by Umari et al. (Phys. Rev. B 2001, 63, 094305). It is supposed that the electric field of the solid is responsible for the difference of the parameters. Nevertheless, the EOPs obtained can be used as an initial set of parameters for calculations of polarizability related characteristics of relevant systems in the framework of BPM.     

N,N-二乙基丙烯酰胺与丙烯酸在聚丙烯薄膜表面光接枝制备二元接枝膜及其温度、pH值敏感特性研究

以二苯甲酮为引发剂,聚丙烯薄膜(CPP)为基材,通过紫外光接枝的方法制备了具有温度和pH值双重敏感特性的聚N,N-二乙基丙烯酰胺(PNDEA)与聚丙烯酸(PAA)二元接枝膜.在PNDEA一次接枝膜的制备过程中,引发剂与单体配比相同时,本体接枝方法的接枝速率在反应初期明显高于溶液接枝方法;采用溶液法时,增大引发剂与单体配比等可提高接枝率.用本体法所制得的PNDEA一次膜光活化接枝PAA时接枝速率较溶液法高,并且能够实现较高的PAA接枝率.用红外光谱(FTIR)、X射线光电子能谱化学分析(ESCA)对接枝层组成的表征结果证实了二元接枝层的存在.在不同温度下,PNDEA一次接枝膜的FTIR谱图中酰胺Ⅰ带特征吸收峰发生位移表明它具有温度敏感特性.用扫描电子显微镜(SEM)对PNDEA接枝层表征结果表明,用不同接枝手段所制备的接枝膜具有不同的表面形貌.通过吸水率测定研究了二元接枝膜的温度及pH值敏感特性.     

羧化聚丙烯载体的链结构对丙烯腈聚合的影响

研究了羧化聚丙烯载体(不饱和羧酸接枝聚丙烯)接枝链的结构对丙烯腈聚合速度的影响。在引发活性方面对聚羧酸氧钒(聚合物负载催化剂)、异丁酸氧钒(小分子同系物)和硫酸氧钒(小分子非同系物)作了对比。实验结果表明:(1)(P-COO)_2VO两羧基之间存在着协同作用;(2)大分子链效应加强了羧基的协同作用;(3)聚羧酸链的d-、1-构型、羧基间距和载体的传质效应对聚合速度均有影响;(4)在本实验条件下,引发机理与高分子载体的链结构无关。     

紫外辐射接枝法修饰聚乳酸表面及其细胞相容性

通过紫外辐射接枝在聚乳酸膜表面引入聚丙烯酸的方法使聚乳酸材料表面的亲水性和细胞相容性得到改善,研究了各种处理条件对材料表面的羧基密度、表面形态和表面接触角的影响,同时还考察了紫外辐射接枝聚丙烯酸的聚乳酸表面的成骨细胞相容性.红外光谱分析和羧基密度测定结果表明:通过紫外光引发接枝,聚丙烯酸被成功接枝到聚乳酸表面,而且接枝密度受接枝时间和聚丙烯酸质量分数的影响很大.接触角和原子力显微镜研究结果表明:接枝聚丙烯酸后的聚乳酸表面的亲水性和粗糙度明显增加,能够促进成骨细胞的生长.     

Simulating polarizable molecular ionic liquids with Drude oscillators

The Drude oscillator model is applied to the molecular ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methyl-imidazolium triflate. The range of manageable Drude charges is tested. The strength of the polarizability is systematically varied from 0% to 100%. The influence on the structure, single particle dynamics, and collective dielectric properties is investigated. The generalized dielectric constant can be decomposed into a dielectric permittivity, a dielectric conductivity, and an optical dielectric constant ?(∞). The major part of the static generalized dielectric constant comes from the collective rotation of the ions, i.e., the dielectric permittivity. The translational contribution from the dielectric conductivity is about 58% of the dielectric permittivity. For the evaluation of the optical dielectric contribution, the computational dielectric theory was adapted to the case of heterogeneous polarizabilities. In case of 100% polarizability, it reaches a value of approximately 2.