Swelling of hydrophobically modified poly(acrylamide) and poly(acrylamide)-co-(acrylic acid) gels in surfactant solutions |
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Authors: | B. H. Brouwer White J. C. T. Kwak |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Chemistry Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J3 Canada, CA |
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Abstract: | A series of hydrophobically modified polyacrylamide and polyacrylamide-co-poly(acrylic acid) gels with systematically varying hydrophobicity were prepared by free-radical polymerization of acrylamide, n-alkylacrylamides (n = 10, 12, and 14), and acrylic acid. The swelling of these gels was examined in water and in both anionic and cationic surfactant solutions. It was found that the gels which incorporated acrylic acid showed extremely high swelling in water. Maximum swelling was observed in gels which incorporated 10 mol% acrylic acid. The swelling of these gels was much less in solutions of both anionic and cationic surfactants than in water. The gels which did not incorporate acrylic acid demonstrated little swelling in water, but showed increased swelling in both anionic and cationic surfactant solutions with increased hydrophobicity of the gel. Received: 1 February 1999 Accepted in revised form: 5 March 1999 |
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Keywords: | Hydrophobically modified polymers Gels Surfactants Polyacrylamide poly(acrylic acid) |
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