The production and properties of crosslinked water-soluble polymers

水溶性聚合物代表了非常广泛的一类聚合物材料，其范围从天然形成的聚合物到具有巨大实用性的一系列合成材料。 天然和合成的水溶性聚合物如今都用于许多对加拿大具有重大经济和技术意义的实际应用中，例如：提高石油采收率、废物处理、粘度改性、粘合剂、涂料、保水性、生物医学、制药和高价值化妆品。建议的工作的总体目标是提供一个更好的科学理解的反应因素，影响生产的重要类型的多组分水溶性聚合物。 这些研究将着眼于与聚合物的详细结构（相对单体组成和尺寸（分子量））相关的聚合动力学。在科学方面的基本目标是提供一个更好的评价的主要控制因素聚合在水介质中。 建议进行系统的实验研究，目的是了解用于生产水溶性聚合物的多组分系统。 该研究将提供有价值的数据，用于开发聚合反应的数学模型，然后可以用作可靠的预测工具。 这将允许设计更有效的方法来制造具有目标结构的聚合物。 所获得的信息还将使人们更好地了解在日益增长的经济和实际利益的应用中具有巨大潜力的过程，例如药物递送和功能性纳米颗粒。 除了收集到的科学数据外，该研究还将为HQP在聚合物合成和表征领域提供极好的培训机会。

Water-soluble polymers represent a very broad class of polymeric materials ranging from naturally formed polymers to a range of synthetic materials having immense practical utility. Both natural and synthetic water-soluble polymers are used today in many practical applications of great economic and technological importance to Canada, such as: enhanced oil recovery, waste treatment, viscosity modification, adhesives, coatings, water retention-, biomedical-, pharmaceutical- and high value cosmetic-products. The overall objective of the proposed work is to provide a better scientific understanding of the reaction factors that affect production of important types of multi-component water soluble polymers. These studies will look at the kinetics of polymerization in relation to the detailed structure of polymers (relative monomer composition and size (molecular weight)). The fundamental aim of the proposed work in scientific terms is to provide a better appreciation of the major controlling factors for polymerizations in aqueous media. It is proposed to carry out systematic experimental studies with a goal of understanding multi-component systems for producing water-soluble polymers. The study would provide valuable data that would be used to develop mathematical models for the polymerizations, which could then be used as reliable predictive tools. This would allow the design of more efficient processes for making polymers with targeted structures. The information obtained will also allow for a better understanding of processes that have great potential in applications of growing economic and practical interest such as pharmaceutical delivery and functional nanoparticles. In addition to the scientific data collected the study would also provide excellent training opportunities for HQP in the area of polymer synthesis and characterization.