Preparation and characterization of polyacrylamide/palygorskite

Yan Chen, Yijiang Zhao, Shouyong Zhou, Xiaozhong Chu, Lianli Yang, Weihong Xing

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Abstract

Polyacrylamide/palygorskite(PAM/PA) as prepared by solution polymerization of acrylamide (AM) on the γ-methacryloxypropyl trimethoxy-silane (KH-570) modified palygorskite (PA). The influence of monomer concentration, polymerization time, initiator concentration and polymerization temperature on mercury adsorption of PAM/PA was investigated. The maximum adsorption capacity was 135.5 mg/g at optimum polymerization conditions. PAM/PA was characterized by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)148-152
Number of pages5
JournalApplied Clay Science
Volume46
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2009

Keywords

  • Acrylamide
  • Adsorption
  • Grafting
  • Mercury
  • Palygorskite
  • Silane coupling agents

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