烷基多苷的泡沫性能及在硬水中的稳定性研究

烷基多苷(APG)由葡萄糖的半缩醛羟基和脂肪醇羟基在酸催化下失去一分子水而得到,它与常用的阴离子表面活性剂十二烷基苯磺酸钠有相似的功能,其起泡性以及在硬水中的稳定性更优良。本文对实验室合成的部分烷基多苷产品的泡沫性能以及在硬水中的稳定性进行研究。     

Amorphous Polymers’ Foaming and Blends with Organic Foaming-Aid Structured Additives in Supercritical CO2, a Way to Fabricate Porous Polymers from Macro to Nano Porosities in Batch or Continuous Processes

Organic polymers can be made porous via continuous or discontinuous expansion processes in scCO₂. The resulting foams properties are controlled by the interplay of three groups of parameters: (i) Chemical, (ii) physico-chemical, and (iii) technological/process that are explained in this paper. The advantages and drawbacks of continuous (extrusion, injection foaming) or discontinuous (batch foaming) foaming processes in scCO₂, will be discussed in this article; especially for micro or nano cellular polymers. Indeed, a challenge is to reduce both specific mass (e.g., ρ < 100 kg·m⁻³) and cell size (e.g., average pore diameter ϕ_average^pores < 100 nm). Then a particular system where small “objects” (coreshells CS, block copolymer MAM) are perfectly dispersed at a micrometric to nanometric scale in poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) will be presented. Such “additives”, considered as foaming aids, are aimed at “regulating” the foaming and lowering the pore size and/or density of PMMA based foams. Differences between these additives will be shown. Finally, in a PMMA/20 wt% MAM blend, via a quasi one-step batch foaming, a “porous to nonporous” transition is observed in thick samples. A lower limit of pore size (around 50 nm) seems to arise.     

Comparative Analysis of the Properties of Tween‐20, Tween‐60, Tween‐80, Arlacel‐60, and Arlacel‐80

Foamability and foam stability, emulsifying power, surface tension, and interfacial tension were investigated for Tween‐20 (polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurate), Tween‐60 (polyoxyethylene sorbitan monostearate), Tween‐80 (polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate), Arlacel‐60 (Sorbitan stearate), and Arlacel‐80 (Sorbitan oleate). Among all the surfactants tested for their foaming power and foamabilty, Arlacel‐60 and Arlacel‐80 showed the best results; the foaming power and foamability was found to be 100%. The surfactants having foam stability more than 50% can be considered as metastable and those less than 50% are considered as low‐stability foams. In case of surface tension and interfacial tension property measurements, Arlacel‐80 showed the best results. At 1% surfactant concentration, the surface tension and interfacial tension of Arlacel‐80 was found to be 29.9 dynes/cm and 1.1 dynes/cm at 30°C ambient temperature. Also, Arlacel‐60 was found to exhibit the best emulsifying power among all the surfactants tested. At 30°C, the emulsifying property of Arlacel‐60 was 6 hours.     

A Study of Dynamic Interfacial Properties as Related to Foaming Properties of Sodium 2,5-dialkyl Benzene Sulfonates

In this article, foaming properties and dynamic interfacial properties of a series of sodium 2,5-dialkyl benzene sulfonates in aqueous solutions were carried out to elucidate the relationship between foaming properties and dynamic interfacial properties. The properties of foams generated from bubbling air through different surfactant solutions were measured using a modified Bikerman device. The dynamic surface tension and surface dilational elasticity were obtained from an image analysis technique based on the oscillating bubble method. The surfactants molecular adsorption at the air/water interface was introduced with Rosen empirical equation and the rate of adsorption was determined from measurements of the dynamic surface tension. The surfactant with the longest alkyl chain shows the lowest dynamic surface activity, which lead to the lowest foam volume. The short ortho straight alkyl chain has little effect on the arrangement of molecules at the interface and the foam stability changes a little with the changing of the ortho alkyl chain length. The foam stability is correlated with both the higher surface dilational elasticity and the larger surface monolayer strength.     

Effect of Structure on Surfactant Properties

The surface tension and foaming properties of sodium oleate were altered by adding a large and electronegative moiety bromine, to its unsaturation. These properties were measured and compared to the original oleic soap. It was found that sodium oleate has a lower CMC than both of the brominated surfactants. The bromine moiety slows down the rate of adsorption with the doubly brominated surfactant being the slowest. Foamability of the brominated analogues were not affected, however its foam were found to be less stable. Bromination also caused the coalescence and bursting of large bubbles.     

微孔聚乳酸支架材料的热稳定性与动态热机械特性

采用无溶剂二氧化碳固态发泡技术,在2.5、3.5、4.0和5.0 MPa饱和压力下制备了泡孔孔径为350-20μm的聚乳酸支架材料.利用热重分析技术、动态热机械分析技术和扫描电子显微镜技术,测定了材料的起始分解温度、分解速率、储存/损耗模量和损耗因子等参数,并利用Kissinger、Ozawa-Doyle和Vyazovkin方程进行了热分解动力学计算,推算了氮气环境下材料的降解时间和使用寿命.结果表明,随着发泡压力的减小,支架材料的泡孔孔径增大,材料的柔韧性增强,表观活化能降低,降解时间缩短.     

Increased expansion ratio,cell density,and compression strength of microcellular poly(lactic acid) foams via lignin graft poly(lactic acid) as a biobased nucleating agent

Green and renewable foaming poly(lactic acid) (PLA) represents one of the promising developments in PLA materials. This study is the first to use the lignin graft PLA copolymer (LG‐g‐PLA) to improve the foamability of PLA as a biobased nucleating agent. This agent was synthesized via ring‐opening polymerization of lignin and lactide. The effects of LG‐g‐PLA on cell nucleation induced by the crystallization, rheological behavior, and foamability of PLA were evaluated. Results indicated that LG‐g‐PLA can improve the crystallization rate and crystallinity of PLA, and play a significant nucleation role in the microcellular foam processing of PLA. LG‐g‐PLA improved the foam morphology of PLA, obtaining a reduced and uniform cell size as well as increased expansion ratio and cell density. With the addition of 3 wt% LG‐g‐PLA content, the PLA/LG‐g‐PLA foams increased the compressive strength 1.6 times than that of neat PLA foams. The improved foaming properties of PLA via a biobased nucleating agent show potential for the production and application of green biodegradable foams.     

Effect of supercritical CO2 plasticization on the degradation and residual crystallinity of melt‐extruded spironolactone

Immediate‐release solid dispersions of a slowly dissolving active pharmaceutical ingredient, spironolactone, were prepared by supercritical‐CO₂‐assisted melt extrusion (a solvent‐free and continuous manufacturing technology) using Eudragit E as matrix. Through optimizing process parameters (i.e. temperature, melt throughput, pressure and CO₂ flow), stable foams with high porosity, homogeneous structure and thin (even submicronic) walls could be prepared, as revealed by scanning electron microscopy. The samples were found to be rigid enough to mill, enabling further processing, as is necessary to formulate tablets. The influence of extrusion temperature and melt throughput on residual drug crystallinity was measured using non‐invasive confocal Raman mapping coupled with chemometric analysis, while the influence on the degree of drug degradation was determined using high performance liquid chromatography. The plasticizing effect of supercritical CO₂ was shown to reasonably improve the purity of the prepared solid dispersions by enabling high‐yield production at lower temperature ranges. At the same time, shorter residence time and lower temperature slightly increased residual drug crystallinity. The obtained foamy structures ensured immediate drug dissolution in an acidic medium. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A novel online visualization system for observing polymer extrusion foaming

Cell nucleation and premature cell growth in extrusion foaming are critical to elaborate the morphology of final foams. These courses happen in the extrusion die which has been unknown for real extrusion foaming process. In this study, a novel visualization system was developed to online observe the cell nucleation and evolution behavior in the extrusion die. The cell evolution and real time pressure along the flow direction could also be obtained with the system. It was found that the solution pressure P_solution was influential to the critical nucleation radius R_cr and the nucleation rate N₀. The higher screw rotating speed corresponded to higher P_solution, lower in die N₀ and less premature cells, while higher cell density for extrude foams. In addition, premature cells with radius over critical break radius R_crb would break into several small cells under sufficient stress gradient in the extrusion flow field.     

An ultrafast and clean method to manufacture poly(vinyl alcohol) bead foam products

Poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) foam is a promising environment‐friendly packaging material due to the good biodegradability and excellent mechanical properties. Besides, PVA can be produced on a large scale viathe non‐petroleum routes. However, the preparation of complex‐shaped PVA foam products has not been realized, because PVA is a water‐soluble and semi‐crystalline polymer with a high melting temperature (226°C), which cannot be welded through the conventional bead foaming technology. In this article, a clean and efficient strategy based on microwave foaming and sintering was innovatively developed to manufacture the PVA bead foam products. First, the expandable PVA beads were prepared through polar solvent‐plasticization, followed by supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO₂)‐impregnation in solid‐state. The impregnated beads were then surface plasticized with polar solvent by simple coating. Thus, the incorporated polar solvent in the internal and superficial regions of PVA beads was rapidly heated upon exposure to the microwave irradiation, which simultaneously induced the CO₂ foaming and interfacial melting, respectively. In this way, the expansion and welding of PVA beads were completed in a one‐step procedure. Meanwhile, the complex‐shaped PVA bead foam products with excellent elasticity and intra‐bead adhesive strength were prepared within a short period of 30 seconds. Therefore, the microwave heating can be considered as an efficient strategy for preparing the high‐performance polymer bead foam products, especially for these high‐melting temperature or glass‐transition temperature polymers.