Monoglyceride-Based Organogelator for Broad-Range Oil Uptake with High Capacity
摘要:
Oil/water separation has been a worldwide subject because of increasing release of oil-containing wastewater as well as several marine oil spills. The phase-selective organogelators (PSOGs) are thought to offer a potential and effective implement for addressing this issue. An ideal PSOG for oil adsorption must fulfill some requirements involving effective gelation, easy synthesis, low cost, and recyclable for reuse. However, beyond those, the ability of gelation for a broad-range oil phase without selectivity is also important. However, most of the reported PSOGs have limitation in this respect thus far. In this paper, a new class of saturated 1-monoglyceride-derived organogelators can efficiently uptake almost all of the common fuel oils from water and gelate organic solvents with extremely low minimum gelation concentration (MGC). In addition, the oils in the gel and gelator molecules can be recovered quantitatively through simple vacuum distillation.
The hair treatment composition contains a combination of at least one itaconic acid monoester/acrylate copolymer and at least one polystyrene sulfonate with a molecular weight in a range from 50,000 to 200,000. The itaconic acid monoester monomer or monomers are of formula CH
2
═C(COOR
1
)CH
2
COOR
2
, wherein one of R
1
and R
2
represents hydrogen and another of R
1
and R
2
represents —(CH
2
CH
2
O)
x
—R
3
, x is a number between 1 and 100 and R
3
is an alkyl group with 8 to 30 carbon atoms. In an especially preferred embodiment the hair treatment composition contains an itaconic acid monocetyl ester/acrylate copolymer and an itaconic acid monostearyl ester/acrylate copolymer.