Organic Solvents Adsorption by Nanocmposite Organogel Prepared via Radical Polymerization Method

This paper describes synthesis of a novel nanocomposite organogel via radical mechanism to adsorption of organic solvents. The nanocomposite organogel was synthesized by dodecyl methacrylate (DDMA), butyl acrylate (BA), and ethyl hexyl acrylate (EHA) monomers in the presence of hexagonal boron nitride (HBN). The condition of reaction is bulk polymerization process by using ammonium per sulfate (APS) as an initiator, and N, N′-methylen bisacrylamide (MBA) as a crosslinking agent. The structural and thermal properties of organogel were determined by the Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA). The highest organic solvents absorbency capacities were determined 17.0, 27.4, 14.8, and 11.1 in toluene, chloroform,dichloromethane, and hexane, respectively. Kinetic studies were also performed by using different kinetic models to investigate the solvent adsorption