Polyethylene glycol diacrylate polymer microgel and preparation method and application thereof
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of polymer synthesis, and particularly relates to a polyethylene glycol diacrylate polymer microgel and a preparation method and application thereof.
Background
The microgel (namely, microsphere) is one of hydrogels, is similar to macroscopic hydrogel, can freely swell in water, but is insoluble in water, and is a functional material with a three-dimensional network structure; the microgel has micron or nanometer size, the particle size of common particles is between 1 and 5000nm, and the microgel also has a cross-linked network structure and can be swelled by a solvent. In practical applications, the microgel and the macroscopic hydrogel have the same characteristics in application due to different sizes and structures. For microgel, the balance between the hydrophilic action of a polymer chain segment and the entropy elasticity of a polymer network exists inside the microgel, and when the microgel is stimulated by the outside, the balance moves, and the particle size changes remarkably, namely volume phase transformation exists; for temperature sensitive microgels, at a certain temperature, there is a significant change in volume, i.e., a "volume-to-phase transition temperature". The microgel has wide application prospect in the aspects of drug controlled release, coating, preparation of nano hybrid materials, optics, sensors, microgel profile control and flooding systems and the like.
The preparation method of the microgel and the preparation method of the polymer microsphere generally comprise the preparation of the microsphere which takes a monomer as a raw material and a polymer as a raw material and the preparation of a high-molecular composite microsphere. The general preparation method using monomers as raw materials comprises the following steps: suspension polymerization, emulsion polymerization, dispersion polymerization, precipitation polymerization, and the like. Although the suspension polymerization can obtain micron spherical particles, the prepared polymer microspheres have the defect of wide particle size distribution; emulsion polymerization typically results in monodisperse submicron spherical particles, but requires the use of appropriate stabilizers or surfactants, and the emulsifiers are not subsequently easily removed from the product; the dispersion polymerization requires adding a stabilizer into a system; the precipitation polymerization method developed by Stover et al (Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 1993, 31: 3257-3263) does not require a stabilizer or a surfactant, which provides a convenient and direct approach for the synthesis of monodisperse crosslinked microspheres.
Early precipitation polymerization was carried out using acetonitrile as solvent, which is highly toxic, and the monomers of choice were usually styrenic monomers with strong hydrophobicity, such as: styrene, divinylbenzene, etc., and also acrylate monomers, such as: acrylonitrile, acrylamide, and the like. Acrylate monomers are usually copolymerized with divinylbenzene to form polymeric microspheres, and such microspheres often fail to provide a broader range of polarity and functionality in practical applications. Therefore, as the microgel, a monomer or a polymer with higher polarity is often selected as a reactant, and the prepared microsphere has the performance of the microgel. With the development, researchers have prepared poly (acrylamide-co-methylenebisacrylamide) microgel by precipitation polymerization method using ethanol as solvent, but because ethanol has affinity with acrylic acid, it needs to be further stabilized after adding a small amount of acrylic acid. Therefore, it is an urgent need to develop microspheres that can be used for preparing microgel by precipitation polymerization without adding any other reagents to stabilize the generated microspheres.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects in the prior art, the invention aims to provide a polyethylene glycol diacrylate polymer microgel.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme:
a polyethylene glycol diacrylate polymer microgel,
the molecular formula of the microgel is as follows:
as a further improvement of the present invention,
r is one of the following structural formulas
As another object of the present invention, there is provided a method for preparing a microgel of a polyethylene glycol diacrylate polymer,
the method comprises the following steps:
the method comprises the following steps: adding polyethylene glycol diacrylate and a sulfydryl reagent into a reaction vessel filled with a first solvent, and stirring and mixing to form a first mixture.
Step two: the first mixture is added to a reaction vessel containing an organic base to form a second mixture.
Step three: and standing the second mixture for 10-30min, finishing the reaction, filtering, putting the precipitate in an oven at 27-30 ℃, and drying the surface to obtain the product.
As a further improvement of the present invention,
the structural formula of the polyethylene glycol diacrylate is as follows:
as a further improvement of the present invention,
the first solvent is methanol.
As a further improvement of the present invention,
the organic base is triethylamine.
As a further improvement of the present invention,
the sulfhydryl reagent is a compound with the following structural formula:
as a further improvement of the present invention,
the ratio of the functionalities of the polyethylene glycol diacrylate to the mercapto agent in the first mixture is: 1: 1-1.05.
As a further improvement of the present invention,
in the first mixed solution, the mass fraction of the sum of the mass of the polyethylene glycol diacrylate and the mass of the mercapto reagent is 5-20%; the mass fraction of the organic base in the second mixture is 20% to 60%.
As another object of the invention, the invention provides an application of the polyethylene glycol diacrylate polymer microgel, and the microgel is used as an absorption dye.
The principle of the invention is as follows: reacting polyethylene glycol and acrylate with mercapto reagent, wherein the molecular formula is
The thiol reagent of (2) is exemplified by the following reaction equation:
the other thiol reagents listed were chosen for reaction, and the reaction scheme was similar.
The invention has the beneficial effects that: 1. the raw materials used in the invention are cheap and easily available, a typical mercapto-Michael addition reaction mechanism is adopted for polymerization, the reaction rate is high, the reaction condition is mild, and the operation is simple and easy to implement;
2. the reaction raw material adopted by the invention is the polyethylene glycol diacrylate, and the chain segment of the contained polyethylene glycol is a material with excellent biocompatibility and is relatively environment-friendly.
3. The microsphere particles obtained by the method are uniform and have good performance on dye adsorption.
Drawings
FIG. 1 is an infrared spectrum of a microgel provided in example 1 of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a scanning electron micrograph of a microgel provided in example 1 of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a standard curve of a methylene blue solution provided in example 1 of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a graph showing the variation of UV in methylene blue solution at different times after microgel addition as provided in example 1 of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a graph showing the change in apparent color of the system before and after the microgel provided in example 1 of the present invention adsorbs a dye.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples.
Example 1
Preparation method of polyethylene glycol diacrylate polymer microgel
The method comprises the following steps: 0.5g of polyethylene glycol diacrylate (Mn 1000) and 0.122g of pentaerythritol tetrakis (3-mercaptopropionate) were added to a beaker containing 3.11g of methanol and dispersed by ultrasound until the mixture was completely dissolved.
Step two: the mixture was added to a beaker containing 4ml of triethylamine, and the mixture was allowed to stand to slowly precipitate a polymer formed.
Step three: standing for 10-30min, reacting, filtering, placing the precipitate in an oven at 27-30 deg.C, drying, and collecting.
Taking a little of microspheres, measuring the infrared of the microspheres to obtain an infrared spectrum as shown in figure 1, wherein C-H stretching vibration appears at a wave number of 2867cm-1, C ═ O stretching vibration appears at a wave number of 1735cm-1 on an ester bond, and C-O stretching vibration appears at a wave number of 1088cm-1, so that the product contains the ester bond, and the structure of the synthesized microspheres is further proved.
A few of SEM images are taken for the prepared microspheres, the measured morphology is shown in figure 2, and the microspheres are observed to be uniform in morphology and have the size of 3-4 microns.
20mg of methylene blue is weighed, dissolved in 50mL of distilled water, and transferred to a 100mL volumetric flask to be constant volume after being completely dissolved, so as to obtain a methylene blue solution of 0.2mg/mL as a stock solution. Taking 1mL, 0.75mL, 0.5mL, 0.25mL and 0.125mL of stock solutions by using a pipette, fixing the volume in a corresponding 10mL volumetric flask, and measuring the ultraviolet absorption to obtain a standard curve, as shown in FIG. 3.
Placing 5mg of polyethylene glycol microgel in 5mL of methylene blue solution with the concentration of 0.02mg/mL, measuring the ultraviolet change of the microgel at an over-period of time, and obtaining an ultraviolet change curve as shown in FIG. 4, wherein it can be seen that the ultraviolet absorption values are sequentially reduced along with the time extension, and the change of the ultraviolet absorption intensity of the system is not obvious after 84h, which shows that the dye adsorption is saturated, and the dye quantity adsorbed by the microgel is as follows after 84h is obtained through calculation: 13.4mg/g, the apparent dye color changed from dark blue to light green as shown in FIG. 5.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the protection scope of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and all technical solutions belonging to the idea of the present invention belong to the protection scope of the present invention. It should be noted that modifications and embellishments within the scope of the invention may occur to those skilled in the art without departing from the principle of the invention, and are considered to be within the scope of the invention.