Synthesis of reticular long-carbon-chain polysiloxane and its hydrophobic modification of phosphogypsum-based materials
Guang Yang,
Songtao He,
Yuanxia Li
et al.
Abstract:Phosphogypsum is a solid waste that is discharged in large quantities during the production of phosphoric acid. The hemihydrate phosphogypsum produced after dewatering has great potential for application in the...
Hydrogel-based softmaterials have attracted significant attentions in various fields due to their high water content, good biocompatibility and variable mechanical strength. However, due to the hydrophilic properties of hydrogel networks, most of the hydrogel-based soft materials are easy to swell in water and have monotonous surface wettability. Here, taking advantage of the intrinsic hydrophobicity of siloxane, novel heteronetwork organohydrogels were synthesized by covalently integrating reactive siloxane monomers into the hydrophilic hydrogel networks through emulsion polymerization. The surface of the heteronetwork organohydrogels exhibited adaptive wettability owing to the rearrangement of the surface chemistry induced by different solvent condition. Moreover, the heterogeneous networks endowed organohydrogels with excellent antiswelling abilities in water or oil (n-heptanes). The potential application of the prepared organohydrogels in the field of oil/water separation was also preliminarily explored. The idea and method of integrating polysiloxane into hydrogels in this study might provide a new insight to develop high-performance polysilxane-based heteronetwork gel materials.
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