Rheological properties of poly(acrylamide-co-sodium acrylate) and poly(acrylamide-co-sodium vinylsulfonate) solutions

Poly(acrylamide-co-sodium acrylate)(PAM/AA-Na) and poly(acrylamide-co-sodium vinylsulfonate)(PAM/VSS-Na) were prepared by inverse emulsion polymerization.The effects of CaCl2 on PAM/VSS-Na or PAM/VSS-Na aqueous solutions were investigated by steady-flow experiments at 25,40,55 and 70 ℃.The results show that the apparent viscosities of both solutions decrease with addition of CaCl2 or increase of temperature and shear rates.PAM/VSS-Na solution has better performance on the salt tolerance,shear endurance and temperature resistance due to containing sulfonic group in the molecules.Ca2+ concentration can affect the viscous activation energy of both solutions and the reason may be that these interactions between Ca2+ and also copolymer molecules are related to temperature and competitive in solution.These results may offer the basic data for searching the flooding systems with the ability of temperature resistance,salt tolerance and shear endurance for tertiary oil recovery.

Water Sorption Behaviors of Novel Biohybrid Hydrogels as Effective Sorbents in Water-Solvent Binary Mixtures

Novel sorbent hydrogels containing acrylamide/sodium vinylsulfonate, carboxymethyl cellulose and zeolite were synthesized with free radical solution polymerization by using ammonium persulfate/N,N,N’,N’-tetramethylethyle-nediamine as redox initiating pair in presence of poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate as crosslinker. It was to investigate the water uptake properties of series of the novel hydrogels, the semi IPNs and the hybrid/biohybrid composite hydrogel sorbents synthesized in this study. Water uptake studies were performed in water and in water-solvent (acetone, methanol and tetrahydrofuran) binary mixtures at 25°C, gravimetrically. Some swelling and diffusion parameters were calculated and discussed. It has been seen that the lower equilibrium swelling factor values in all solvent compositions in comparison with the equilibrium swelling factor values in water.

Bifunctional two-carbon reagent made from acetylene via 1,2-difunctionalization and its applications

There are very limited approaches to directly gluing two molecules for the production of internal alkenes using the vastly abundant acetylene via 1,2-difunctionalization. Conversion of gaseous acetylene to internal alkenes via 1,2-difunctionalization in a desired manner is not as easy as it might be expected due to the potential competition reactions between acetylene and alkene produced and the difficulty in handling this harmful reagent and controlling the regio-and stereoselectivity. In this work, we designed an efficient catalytic system for the incorporation of acetylene gas into tremendous(E)-β-bromo vinylsulfones, which are bench-stable, easy to operate, and can function as bifunctional acetylene and show a rich reactivity profile in Sonogashira coupling, Heck coupling, substituted reaction, and various desulfonylation transformations, providing numerous internal alkenes.

Fabrication of Covalently Linked PAH/PVS Layer-by-layer Assembled Multilayers via a Post-photochemical Cross-linking Strategy

A post-photochemical cross-linking strategy was successfully demonstrated to enhance the stability of polyelectrolyte poly（allylamine hydrochloride）（PAH）/poly（vinylsulfonic acid sodium salt）（PVS） multilayers. Con- ventional polyelectrolyte multilayers of PAH/PVS are usually fabricated through electrostatic layer-by-layer（LbL） assembly, resulting in poor stability, especially in basic solutions, which leads to the urgent demand for converting weak electrostatic interactions into covalent bonds to enhance the stability of the multilayers. This stability problem has been ultimately addressed by post-infiltrating a photosensitive cross-linking agent, 4,4＇-diazostilbene-2,2＇- disulfonie acid disodium salt（DAS）, into the LbL assembled films to initiate the photochemical reaction to cross-link the multilayers. The obviously improved stability of the photo-cross-linked multilayers was demonstrated through experiments with basic solution treatments. Compared to the complete decomposition of uncross-linked multilayers in basic solution, over 74.4% of the covalently cross-linked multilayers were retained under the same conditions, even after a longer duration of basic solution treatment.