Abstract

AbstractThe preparation of single‐phase toluene/sodium bis(2‐ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate(AOT)/water/acrylamide/sodium dodecyl sulfate(SDS) inverse microemulsions is described and their properties prior to polymerization (macroviscosity as a function of volume fraction Φaw of the dispersed aqueous (water + acrylamide(AAm) + SDS) phase, and of SDS/AAm mass ratio) are studied. At 20°C three viscosity maxima are observed. At 50°C all three peaks remain, the viscosity of the first and third peak, respectively, is lowered to 5–8 mPa· s while the second, most prominent peak still marks the level of ca. 250 mPa· s. The polymerization of acrylamide in dispersion systems is initiated by water‐soluble ammonium peroxodisulfate (APS) and oilsoluble dibenzoyl peroxide (DBP) at 60°C. The polymerization rate of acrylamide for a given [toluene]/[AOT] molar ratio and AAm/water mass ratio monotonically decreases for Φaw values greater than 20%. The polyacrylamide viscosity molecular mass increases up to a Φaw value of ca. 30%, irrespective of the nature of initiator. For Φaw values over 30% the viscosity molecular mass of polyacrylamide seems to level off with some sings of shallow minimum close to Φaw of 50%.

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