Inorganic/lignin type polymer composite nanoparticles, preparation method therefor and application thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9695318-B2
Application number	US-201415105345-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 28, 2014
Priority date	Dec 16, 2013
Publication date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jul 4, 2017

Abstract

The preparation method includes: adding an activating agent into a basic alkaline lignin solution first, then adding a carboxylating agent and reacting to obtain a carboxylated alkaline lignin; dissolving a phosphorylating agent into water, adding epichlorohydrin, and reacting to obtain a hydroxyl phosphate type compound; mixing the carboxylated alkaline lignin and the hydroxyl phosphate type compound and reacting to obtain a lignin type polymer; adding an inorganic nanoparticle suspension into the lignin type polymer and adding an acid for codeposition to obtain the product after aging and drying.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of preparing inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles, comprising:
(1) dissolving an alkaline lignin solid into water to formulate a suspension at a concentration of 30%-50% by weight, adjusting the pH to 9-12 with an alkalinity regulator, heating to 60° C. -90° C., adding an activating agent, and reacting for 0.5-2 hours; dissolving a carboxylating agent in a formulation into water to formulate a solution at a concentration of 10%-30% by weight, adding to the above alkaline lignin suspension, and reacting for 1-3 hours at 60° C. -90° C. to obtain carboxylated alkaline lignin;
(2) dissolving a phosphorylating agent in the formulation into water to formulate a solution at a concentration of 10%-35% by weight, adding epichlorohydrin, heating to 30° C. -90° C., and reacting for 0.5-3 hours to obtain a hydroxyl phosphate compound;
(3) mixing the carboxylated alkaline lignin in (1) with the hydroxyl phosphate compound in (2), adjusting the pH to 10-13 with an alkalinity regulator, heating to 75° C. -95° C., reacting for 0.5-2 hours, and cooling to room temperature to obtain a liquid lignin polymer;
(4) adding inorganic nanoparticles into water to formulate a suspension at a concentration of 10%-40% by weight, adding a pretreatment agent, stirring well before adding the liquid lignin polymer in (3), heating to 50° C.-80° C., reacting for 0.5-2 hours, then adding an acidity regulator to regulate the pH to 3-5 before ageing at 50° C. -80° C. for 0.5-4 hours, and then spray-drying to produce the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles;
the amount of each reactant is as follows in parts by weight:

alkaline lignin
100

inorganic nanoparticles
5-80

activating agent
2-10

carboxylating agent
5-20

phosphorylating agent
5-20

epichlorohydrin
5-15

pretreatment agent
5-10

the activating agent is one or two agents selected from the group consisting of dioxane, sodium periodate, ethanol, isopropanol and acetone;
the inorganic nanoparticles are one selected from the group consisting of nano silica, nano alumina, nano zinc oxide, nano titanium dioxide and nano calcium carbonate;
the carboxylating agent is one or two agents selected from the group consisting of monochloroacetic acid, monobromoacetic acid, monoiodoacetic acid, sodium monochloroacetate and dichloroacetic acid;
the phosphorylating agent is one or two agents selected from the group consisting of sodium dihydrogen phosphate, disodium hydrogen phosphate, dipotassium hydrogen phosphate, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, and diammonium hydrogen phosphate; and
the pretreatment agent is one selected from the group consisting of ethanol, acetone, glycerol, isopropanol and cyclohexane.

2. The method of preparing the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles according to claim 1 , wherein: the alkaline lignin is one or two substances selected from the group consisting of wheat straw alkaline lignin, bamboo pulp alkaline lignin, reed alkaline lignin, wood pulp alkaline lignin, cotton pulp alkaline lignin and bagasse alkaline lignin.

3. The method of preparing the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles according to claim 1 , wherein: the alkalinity regulator is NaOH aqueous solution at a concentration of 30% by mass.

4. The method of preparing the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles according to claim 1 , wherein: the acidity regulator is sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid or hydrochloric acid.

5. The acidity regulator according to claim 4 , wherein: the sulfuric acid, the phosphoric acid or the hydrochloric acid has a mass concentration of 10%-30%.

6. An inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles prepared by the method according to claim 1 .

7. Application of the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles according to claim 6 , wherein: blending the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles with plastics or rubbers in an amount of 10%-40% by dry-basis weight of the plastics or the rubbers, to produce a polymer composite material.

8. An inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticle is prepared by the method according to claim 2 .

9. An inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticle is prepared by the method according to claim 3 .

10. An inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticle is prepared by the method according to claim 4 .

11. An inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticle is prepared by the method according to claim 5 .

12. Application of the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles according to claim 8 , wherein: blending the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles with plastics or rubbers in an amount of 10%-40% by dry-basis weight of the plastics or the rubbers, to produce a polymer composite material.

13. Application of the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles according to claim 9 , wherein: blending the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles with plastics or rubbers in an amount of 10%-40% by dry-basis weight of the plastics or the rubbers, to produce a polymer composite material.

14. Application of the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles according to claim 10 , wherein: blending the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles with plastics or rubbers in an amount of 10%-40% by dry-basis weight of the plastics or the rubbers, to produce a polymer composite material.

15. Application of the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles according to claim 11 , wherein: blending the inorganic/lignin polymer composite nanoparticles with plastics or rubbers in an amount of 10%-40% by dry-basis weight of the plastics or the rubbers, to produce a polymer composite material.

Assignees

• Univ South China Tech

Inventors

• Qiu Xueqing
• Yang Dongjie
• Guo Wenyuan
• Zhou Mingsong
• Huang Jinhao
• Yi Conghua
• Li Yuan

Classifications

• C08L21/00

  Compositions of unspecified rubbers · CPC title

• C08G83/001

  Macromolecular compounds containing organic and inorganic sequences, e.g. organic polymers grafted onto silica · CPC title

• C08K9/10

  Encapsulated ingredients · CPC title

• C08K2003/2296

  of zinc · CPC title

• C08L9/02

  Copolymers with acrylonitrile · CPC title