RT Journal Article
T1 Modelling and control of the microstructure of comb-like poly(MAA-: Co-PEGMA) water-soluble copolymers
A1 Emaldi, Inãki
A1 Hamzehlou, Shaghayegh
A1 Erkizia, Edurne
A1 Sanchez Dolado, Jorge
A1 Etxeberria, Agustin
A1 Leiza, Jose Ramon
AB Water-soluble copolymers of methacrylic acid and poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate (poly(MAA-co-PEGMA)) present a comb like structure. These macromolecules under alkaline conditions present an anionic backbone and uncharged side chains. The control of their microstructure is of paramount importance for application as cementitious admixtures. With this in mind, open-loop control strategies including monomer starved and optimal addition policies were employed to obtain homogeneous composition copolymers. A detailed mathematical model was developed for the copolymerization of MAA and PEGMA5 and was used to develop optimal feeding strategies. The mathematical model provides a good representation of the experimental data sets and copolymers with desired homogeneous copolymer compositions were synthesized within the shortest possible reaction times.
SN 1759-9954
YR 2019
FD 2019-02-28
LA eng
NO Emaldi , I , Hamzehlou , S , Erkizia , E , Sanchez Dolado , J , Etxeberria , A & Leiza , J R 2019 , ' Modelling and control of the microstructure of comb-like poly(MAA-: Co-PEGMA) water-soluble copolymers ' , Polymer Chemistry , vol. 10 , no. 8 , pp. 1000-1009 . https://doi.org/10.1039/c8py01599f
NO Publisher Copyright: © 2019 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
NO The authors thank the financial support received from EUSKAMPUS Fundazioa, POLYMAT (UPV/EHU) and Tecnalia Research & Innovation to carry out the project. The SGIker J. I. Miranda is gratefully acknowledged for his help with the NMR analysis and Dr Amaia Agirre for molar mass analysis. S. Hamzehlou acknowledges the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) for the “Contratación para la especialización de personal investigador doctor” postdoctoral grant.
DS TECNALIA Publications
RD 29 jul 2024