Liquid Crystalline of Alumina : Grafted with Acrylic Acid and Organic Monomers and its Adsorption Properties

ISBN-13: 9783639365757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 128 str.

Ammar H. Al-Dujaili

Opis

In this work commercial ceramic material aluminum oxide (alumina, Al2O3) was grafted and extended by three different monomers using free radical polymerization. These monomers are acrylic acid, 4-(4'-butoxy- and 4'-octoxybenzylideneamino) phenylmthacrylate to produce three polymers; polymer A, polymer B and polymer C. The last two polymers showed liquid crystalline properties. The ability of these three alumina-grafted polymers was examined for adsorption of phenol and p-chlorophenol under different conditions i.e., initial concentrations, pH and temperatures.

O autorze

Maha Sultan, Ph.D, M.Sc. and B.Sc. from University of Baghdad. She is currently Assistant Professor of polymer chemistry at Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq.