Heavy metal sensors and sequestrating agents based on polyaromatic copolymers and hydrogels

Aula Alwattar; Athir Haddad; Joshua Moore; Mubark Alshareef; Cian Bartlam; Adam Woodward; Louise Natrajan; Stephen Yeates; Peter Quayle

Heavy metal sensors and sequestrating agents based on polyaromatic copolymers and hydrogels

Aula Alwattar, Athir Haddad, Joshua Moore, Mubark Alshareef, Cian Bartlam, Adam Woodward, Louise Natrajan, Stephen Yeates, Peter Quayle

University of Basrah

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Abstract

A series of readily available, amphiphilic pyrene- and perylene-containing fluorescent materials, derived from the co-polymerisation of 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propansulfonic acid (AMPS) with acrylate esters, can be used to detect heavy metal ions in the micromolar concentration range in aqueous solutions. The incorporation of these amphiphilic copolymers into semi-interpenetrating hydrogels also resulted in the irreversible removal of divalent Co2+, Ni2+, Cu2+ and Pb2+ ions from aqueous solutions at neutral pH.

Original language	English
Journal	Polymer International
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 6 Jul 2020

Keywords

polyaromatic copolymers
amphiphilic polymers
free radical polymerisation
IPNs
detector and hazardous metals

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