作者:Shibaji Basak、Jayanta Nanda、Arindam Banerjee
DOI:10.1039/c2jm30711a
日期:——
An aromatic amino acid (phenylglycine) based amphiphile with amide and ester groups and a long fatty acyl chain has been found to form organogels selectively in the fuel hydrocarbon solvents including hexane, heptane, cyclohexane, diesel, kerosene and pump-oil at room temperature. Organogels have been well characterized morphologically by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). Morphological studies of these xerogels have revealed the presence of fascinating right-handed twisted nanoribbons (in n-heptane and n-octane). Involvement of different non-covalent interactions among the gelator molecules within the gel matrix has been studied using FT-IR and XRD. The organogel in diesel is mechanically stable with high yield stress (177.8 Pa) and storage modulus (>104 Pa) values, as has been evidenced from the rheological studies. Interestingly, this gelator compound exhibits phase selective gelation properties and the phase selective gelation occurs efficiently and quickly (within 90 s), in oil–water mixtures and the gelator molecule can be recovered and reused several times easily, indicating its applicability in oil spill cleaning.
研究发现,一种芳香族氨基酸(苯基甘氨酸)亲和剂具有酰胺基、酯基和长脂肪酰基链,可在室温下选择性地在燃料烃溶剂(包括己烷、庚烷、环己烷、柴油、煤油和泵油)中形成有机凝胶。场发射扫描电子显微镜(FE-SEM)和原子力显微镜(AFM)对有机凝胶的形态进行了很好的表征。对这些异凝胶的形态学研究表明,它们存在迷人的右旋扭曲纳米带(在正庚烷和正辛烷中)。利用傅立叶变换红外光谱(FT-IR)和 X 射线衍射(XRD)对凝胶基质中凝胶分子之间不同的非共价相互作用进行了研究。流变学研究证明,柴油中的有机凝胶具有较高的屈服应力(177.8 帕)和储存模量(>104 帕),机械性能稳定。有趣的是,这种凝胶剂化合物具有相选择凝胶化特性,在油水混合物中,相选择凝胶化发生得又快又好(90 秒内),而且凝胶剂分子可以很容易地多次回收和重复使用,这表明它适用于溢油清洁。