Acrylated Composite Hydrogel Preparation and Adsorption Kinetics of Methylene Blue.

By using cyclodextrin (α-CD) self-assembly into a hydrogel with the triblock copolymer Pluronic F127, nanomicrocrystalline cellulose was introduced into a gel system to form a composite CNC-ß-CD/α-CD/Pluronic F127 hydrogel (CCH). CCH was modified further by grafting acrylic acid to form a novel acrylated composite hydrogel (ACH). The swelling degree of ACH was 156 g/g. Adsorption isotherms show that the adsorption process for methylene blue proximity fitted the Freundlich model. The adsorption kinetics showed that ACH followed a quasi-second-order kinetic model. Methylene blue desorption showed that ACH was a temperature- and pH-dependent gel. Repeated adsorption and desorption experiments were carried out three times, and the removal rate of methylene blue at 75 mg/L was still 70.1%.

Synthesis of polyethylene glycol functional bonded silica gel for selective recognition and separation of α-cyclodextrin.

In this work, we for the first time synthesized the polyethylene glycol (PEG) bonded silica gel via KH-560 as a silane coupling reagent for column chromatography by a solid/liquid surface continuous reaction method. The molecular interaction, structure, morphology, and thermostability was characterized by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), elemental analysis (EA), scanning electronic microscope (SEM) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Given that PEG is capable to self-assemble with α-CD, the PEG bonded silica gel was used as packing of column chromatography to achieve the selective separation of α-cyclodextrin (α-CD) at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. The bonded silica gel column could realize the effective separation of α-CD in the enzymatic hydrolysis mixture, which provides support for industrial separation of α-CD.