Fresh suspensions of the thermal silica, Aerosil, are flocculated by polyacrylamide. Infra-red spectroscopy and use of simple hydrogen-bonding compounds as competitors suggest that the polymer is adsorbed on incompletely hydrated sites, perhaps by hydrogen-bonding on to the so-called "free" silanol groups on the surface of silica. In this system, adsorption and flocculation are non-ionic in character, the silica particles being joined by polymer molecules that are anchored to two particles.
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | Role of surface silanol groups in the flocculation of silica suspensions by polyacrylamide: Part 1. - Chemistry of the adsorption process |
Autor: | Griot, O.; Kitchener, J.A. |
Filiación: | Dept. of Mining and Mineral Technology, Imperial College, London, S.W.7 Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Año: | 1965 |
Volumen: | 61 |
Página de inicio: | 1026 |
Página de fin: | 1031 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/TF9656101026 |
Título revista: | Transactions of the Faraday Society |
ISSN: | 00147672 |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00147672_v61_n_p1026_Griot |