Radiolytic polymerization and some applications of obtained polymers

Hydrogels are considered as very interesting polymeric materials that find wide application in many fields. These fields include chromatography, biology and medicine, field of contact lenses, controlled release application and agriculture. However, most of the research work are devoted to synthesis these hydrogels using chemical techniques. In literature, a very limited information are available on radiation polymerization of corresponding monomer for hydrogel preparation. The present work is aiming to synthesis a series of hydrogels based on homoor co-polymer and to study the parameters affecting, these process. These parameters include radiation dose, type of monomer, type of solvent, concentration of crosslinking agent and liquor ratio. Besides, it is aimed to correlate the structure of these hydrogels with the efficiency for different metal ions recovery. Several chemicals and physical tools were used during this investigation including spectroscopic UV-Visible, Atomic absorption and IR), thermal analysis (TGA and DSC), magnetic and scanning electron microscope