Faced with higher demands of pigments in various applications, the performance of pigments in a specific system is in urgent need of optimization and improvement. Polyorganosiloxane (POS) stands out among various encapsulating polymeric materials for pigment modification due to its superior thermal stability and alkali resistance. However, the inherent hydrophobicity of POS causes poor stability in aqueous systems, which is usually applied in environmentally friendly applications. Grafting hydrophilic polymer chains on the surface of POS could improve water dispersity. In addition, the encapsulated pigment can also be endowed with various functionalities by selecting or combining grafted polymers. Herein, we reported a strategy to encapsulate Prussian blue (PB27) with POS grafted with poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) or poly(N-(2-hydroxyethyl) acrylamide) (PHEAA) to allow better stability and functionality of the composite pigment particles, denoted as PB27@POS@PAA or PB27@POS@PHEAA, respectively. The effect of the number of monomers and the amount of initiator potassium persulfate (KPS) on the brush thickness of the grafted polymers was studied, along with various performance properties and the functionality of PB27@POS@PAA and PB27@POS@PHEAA. The dispersity, alkali resistance, and high-temperature stability are studied. The brush-like composite pigment performs better after centrifugation (5000 rpm, 30 min) or treatment under 90 °C when the dosage of grafting monomer AA or HEAA reaches 400 wt%. Optimal alkali resistance was obtained for PB27@POS@PAA (AA, 200 wt%) with a particle size variation of only 31 nm after 8 h. Comparably, PB27@POS@PHEAA behaved worse under similar conditions. Moreover, PB27@POS grafted with PAA was responsive to pH and that with PHEAA showed excellent antifouling properties, which could also be replaced by other functional monomers if needed.
Graphical Reaction pathway ? More adsorption of NH 3 /NH 4 + species and the higher reactivity with gaseous NO maintain the process of E−R reaction path, leading to a satisfactory SCR activity of K poisoned NbFeVO x /TiO 2 . Whereas the decreased adsorption and reactivity of NH 3 /NH 4 + and NO x restrains the process of L−H reaction path, thus showing inferior SCR activity of K poisoned FeVO 4 /TiO 2 . FeVO 4 -based catalysts with a wide temperature window and high SO 2 tolerance have attracted increasing attention for the selective catalytic reduction of NO x with NH 3 . However, the alkali-resistance of FeVO 4 -based catalysts is still challenging. In this study, the K-resistance of FeVO 4 /TiO 2 was markedly improved via the Nb modification. It was demonstrated that the adsorption and reactivity of NH 3 /NH 4 + and NO x species on K poisoned FeVO 4 /TiO 2 both decreased, which restrained the process of Langmuir-Hinshelwood reaction path. As a comparison, more adsorption of NH 3 /NH 4 + species and the higher reactivity with gaseous NO maintain the process of Eley-Rideal reaction path, leading to a satisifactory SCR activity. This work demonstrated an effective route to improve alkali-resistance via modulating reactivity and reaction path of adsorbed NH 3 /NH 4 + and NO x species over Nb modified vanadate catalysts, which presented a new point for the development of high-performance alkali-resistant SCR catalysts.
Mullite-bonded porous SiC ceramics sintered in air by gelcasting are still challenges due to the high porosity induced severe oxidation of SiC, which results in the formation of large amount of detrimental cristobalite phase. Here in this work, small amounts of Y 2 O 3 and CaF 2 were added in SiC and Al(OH) 3 raw materials as sintering additives for the in situ growth of mullite reinforcement. This additive system promoted the reaction between oxidation-derived SiO 2 from SiC and Al 2 O 3 decomposed from Al(OH) 3 to mullite phase. Almost no cristobalite phase was detected when sintered at 1450℃/2 h with CaF 2 addition of more than 2.0 wt%. Mullite whisker reinforcement was in situ formed due to the gas reaction mechanism caused by CaF 2 addition. Thus obtained porous SiC ceramics exhibited a flexural strength of 67.6 MPa at porosity of 41.3%, which maintained exceeding 36 MPa after 8 h corrosion in 10 wt% NaOH 80℃ solution, being the best performance up to now. This high performance of porous SiC was attributed to the additive induces proper phase control and in situ formation of whisker-like mullite reinforcement.