Amphiphilic polymer biosurfactant and preparation method and application thereof
Technical Field
The invention relates to the field of emulsion surfactants, in particular to an amphiphilic polymer biosurfactant and a preparation method and application thereof.
Background
Conventional emulsions with a large oil/water interface are thermodynamically extremely unstable systems, and the addition of surfactants can effectively reduce surface tension and promote long-term stability of the emulsion. However, in conventional emulsion polymerization, the presence of small molecule surfactants can affect the properties of the polymer. Compared with the traditional surfactant, the macromolecular surfactant has excellent dispersibility, O/W emulsion stability, salt resistance and anti-deposition effect because the hydrophobic side chain of the macromolecular surfactant is associated in water to form a hydrophobic group, but the capacity of the macromolecular surfactant for reducing the surface tension is generally lower, and the surface activity is not obvious.
Polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) latex is widely used in various aspects of wood processing, construction, furniture, textile, paper making, and daily life. PVAc latex is typically prepared by conventional emulsion or suspension polymerization, and the nature of the emulsifying or suspending agent often affects its performance in use, e.g., modeling, adhesion, water resistance, etc. And with the enhancement of the environmental awareness of people, the use of green chemicals is more and more emphasized. Therefore, the preparation of bio-based polymer surfactants with high surface activity is a problem to be solved.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects in the prior art, the invention aims to modify natural macromolecular compound cellulose as a carrier to prepare a biological-based surfactant with high surface activity, and the biological-based surfactant acts in polyvinyl acetate emulsion to improve the adhesive force and strength of the emulsion.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention provides the following technical scheme:
a preparation method of an amphiphilic polymer biosurfactant comprises the following steps:
s1: adding polyethylene glycol (mPEG) and fluorocaprolactone into a reaction bottle, adding stannous octoate, vacuumizing, and reacting for 24 hours in a constant-temperature oil bath at 140 ℃; cooling, adding dichloromethane for dissolving, dripping the solution into cold anhydrous ether, precipitating, filtering, and vacuum drying to obtain polyethylene glycol-caprolactone copolymer (PEG-PCL);
s2: adding hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) into a reaction bottle, adding 90% ethanol/water solution, adding sodium hydroxide, performing constant-temperature water bath at 45 ℃, then slowly dropwise adding ethanol solution of maleic anhydride, continuing to react for 2 hours after dropwise adding, adjusting the pH to be neutral by using hydrochloric acid solution, then centrifuging twice at high speed by using absolute ethanol, and performing vacuum drying to obtain hydroxyethyl cellulose maleate;
s3: adding the hydroxyethyl cellulose maleate into a reaction bottle, adding sodium sulfite sodium hydrogen solution, dropwise adding a catalyst cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide to perform sulfonation reaction, removing the solvent through rotary evaporation, and drying to obtain an intermediate product;
s4: dissolving the polyethylene glycol-caprolactone copolymer into DMF, adding a dehydrating agent, carrying out nitrogen protection, adding the intermediate product, stirring at a low speed, then dropwise adding a DMF solution dissolved with a catalyst, stirring at a normal temperature for reacting for 48 hours, extracting with ethyl acetate, crystallizing an extract in ice water, washing the crystal with glacial ethanol, carrying out suction filtration, and carrying out vacuum drying to obtain the cellulose-based amphiphilic polymer surfactant.
Preferably, in the preparation method, the molar ratio of the polyethylene glycol to the fluorocaprolactone is 1: 50.
Preferably, in the preparation method, the catalyst is 4-Dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP).
Preferably, in the preparation method, the mass ratio of the maleic anhydride to the cellulose is 1: 5.
Preferably, in the preparation method, the temperature of the sulfonation reaction is 80 ℃, and the reaction time is 2 h.
Preferably, in the preparation method, the dehydrating agent is N, N' -Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC).
The amphiphilic polymer biosurfactant prepared by the preparation method is provided.
The application of the amphiphilic polymer biosurfactant prepared by the preparation method is preferably used as a surfactant in polyvinyl acetate emulsion.
The macromolecular surfactant consists of two parts of hydrophilic and lipophilic groups, the mPEG ring-opening fluorocaprolactone generates amphiphilic degradable copolymer PEG-PCL, and m in the formula is the number of the repeating units of the PCL, preferably 40-60. The invention selects water-soluble hydroxyethyl cellulose as a carrier, and utilizes the amphiphilic copolymer to graft and modify the carrier. The method comprises the following steps of carrying out ring-opening reaction on maleic anhydride and cellulose under the action of a catalyst, introducing double bonds and carboxyl, carrying out esterification reaction on the carboxyl and hydroxyl at the tail end of PEG-PCL, grafting an amphiphilic polymer chain onto the surface of the cellulose, and carrying out sulfonation reaction on the double bonds to generate sulfonate, thereby preparing the cellulose-based amphiphilic polymer surfactant.
The grafted and modified cellulose is used as a surfactant and added into a polymerization solution of vinyl acetate, acts on an interface layer between emulsion droplets and a water phase, and forms a nucleophilic protective layer around thick liquid droplets, which is favorable for the stability of the emulsion, and the viscosity of the polymer emulsion is increased by the high-molecular-weight long-chain copolymer.
By the scheme, the invention at least has the following advantages: the cellulose adopted by the scheme is derived from wood or kapok, the raw material is easy to obtain, the modification process is simple, and the cost performance is high; the cellulose-based amphiphilic polymer surfactant prepared by the invention has lower critical micelle concentration and surface tension; the modified cellulose surfactant participates in emulsion polymerization of polyvinyl acetate, so that good stability is provided for the emulsion, the emulsion conversion rate is improved, and the adhesive force and strength of the emulsion are improved; the grafted modified cellulose can be used as a novel biosurfactant and meets the requirement of green chemistry.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the following embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
Example 1:
adding 5g of HEC into a reaction bottle, adding 90% ethanol/water solution to prepare 20% wt solution, adding sodium hydroxide to adjust the pH value to be alkaline, carrying out constant-temperature water bath at 45 ℃, then slowly dropwise adding ethanol solution containing 1g of maleic anhydride, continuing to react for 2h after dropwise adding, adjusting the pH value to be neutral by using hydrochloric acid solution, then carrying out high-speed centrifugation twice by using absolute ethyl alcohol, and carrying out vacuum drying; and adding the dried product into a reaction bottle, adding sodium bisulfite solution, dropwise adding a catalyst of cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide, reacting for 2 hours at 80 ℃, removing the solvent through rotary evaporation, and drying to obtain the maleic anhydride modified cellulose surfactant.
Example 2:
adding 0.8g of polyethylene glycol (mPEG) and 2.64g of fluorocaprolactone into a reaction bottle, adding stannous octoate, vacuumizing, and reacting in a constant-temperature oil bath at 140 ℃ for 24 hours; cooling, adding dichloromethane to dissolve, dripping the solution into cold anhydrous ether, precipitating, filtering, and vacuum drying to obtain polyethylene glycol-caprolactone copolymer (PEG-PCL).
Dissolving polyethylene glycol-caprolactone copolymer into DMF, adding DCC (dimethyl dichloroisocyanurate), protecting with nitrogen, adding maleic anhydride modified cellulose surfactant with equal mass, stirring at low speed, then dropwise adding DMF solution dissolved with DMPA, stirring at normal temperature for reaction for 48h, extracting with ethyl acetate, crystallizing the extract in ice water, washing the crystal with glacial ethanol, filtering, and drying in vacuum to obtain the cellulose-based amphiphilic polymer surfactant.
The modified cellulose surfactant participates in the emulsion polymerization of vinyl acetate, the surface performance can be improved, and the preparation method of the emulsion can refer to the following steps:
the PVAc emulsion with general purpose can be obtained by emulsion polymerization of the formula at 70 ℃.
Example 3: PVAc emulsion was prepared as a blank according to the preparation method described above.
Example 4: an emulsion was prepared as test sample 1 by the above preparation method, formulation and addition of 1 part of maleic anhydride-modified cellulose surfactant (example 1).
Example 5: an emulsion was prepared as test sample 2 by adding 1 part of PEG-PCL graft modified cellulose surfactant (example 2) to the formulation according to the above preparation method.
The lower the Critical Micelle Concentration (CMC), i.e. the lowest concentration of surfactant molecules that associate in a solvent to form micelles, indicates that the lower the concentration of such an active agent required to form micelles, the lower the concentration to reach surface saturation adsorption, and thus the lower the concentration required to modify the surface properties to effect wetting, emulsification, solubilization, foaming, etc. The data in table 1 show that the minimum surface tension value of HEC under CMC concentration condition is 54.21mN/m, the minimum surface tension of cellulose modified by small molecular maleic anhydride is 46.62mN/m, which indicates that modifying fiber can improve its ability to reduce water surface tension, and on this basis, long chain of amphiphilic polymer is introduced, the obtained cellulose-based amphiphilic surfactant can reduce water surface tension to 36.73mN/m, the corresponding CMC value is 0.71g/L, i.e. the required surfactant concentration is small, and the ability to reduce water surface tension is large, thus having good surface performance.
TABLE 1
The addition of the surfactant in the emulsion polymerization can play a role in improving the performance of the emulsion, and the hydrophilic, lipophilic and amphiphilic chain segment is grafted on the cellulose, so that the good surface activity is maintained, and the cellulose has better performances of thickening, emulsifying, dispersing and the like. As can be seen from the data in Table 2, the conversion rate and the solid content of the emulsion are both increased, and various physical properties of the emulsion of the test sample are obviously improved, which indicates that the addition of the graft modified cellulose has better surface activity; meanwhile, the viscosity and the bonding strength of the emulsion are increased, because the cellulose-based polymer surfactant has longer hydrophilic-lipophilic amphiphilic chain segments, the adhesive force is stronger, and the adhesive force and the strength of the polyvinyl acetate emulsion are improved to a certain extent.
TABLE 2
Performance of
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Blank sample
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Test sample 1
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Test sample 2
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Solids content/%
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40
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41
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45
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Conversion of emulsion/%
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87
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89
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95
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pH
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6-7
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6-7
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6-7
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viscosity/mPas
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450
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520
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630
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Adhesive strength/MPa
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1.53
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2.35
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3.21 |
While the invention has been described above with reference to an embodiment, various modifications may be made and equivalents may be substituted for elements thereof without departing from the scope of the invention. In particular, the various features of the embodiments disclosed herein may be used in any combination, provided that there is no structural conflict, and the combinations are not exhaustively described in this specification merely for the sake of brevity and conservation of resources. Therefore, it is intended that the invention not be limited to the particular embodiments disclosed, but that the invention will include all embodiments falling within the scope of the appended claims.