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Sciences and Cultures (CRDCSC), Montreal, Quebec, Canada vi About the Editors Ewa Kłodzińska, PhD Ewa Kłodzińska, PhD, holds a PhD from Nicolaus Copernicus University, Faculty of Chemistry in Torun, Poland For ten years, she has been doing research on determination and identification of microorganisms using the electromigration techniques for the purposes of medical diagnosis Currently she is working at the Institute for Engineering of Polymer Materials and Dyes and investigates surface characteristics of biodegradable polymer material on the basis of zeta potential measurements She has written several original articles, monographs, and chapters in books for graduate students and scientists She has made valuable contributions to the theory and practice of electromigration techniques, chromatography, sample preparation, and application of separation science in pharmaceutical and medical analysis Dr Ewa Kłodzińska is a member of editorial boards of ISRN Analytical Chemistry and the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering (IJCCE) CONTENTS List of Contributors ix List of Abbreviations xiii List of Symbols xv Preface xix   Theoretical and an Experimental Research of Efficiency of Gas Purification in Rotoklon with Internal Circulation of a Liquid R R Usmanova and G E Zaikov   Lecture Note on Quantum-Chemical Mechanism and Synthesis of Selected Compounds 25 V A Babkin, V U Dmitriev, G A Savin, E S Titova, and G E Zaikov   Transport Properties of Films of Сhitosan—Amikacin 39 A S Shurshina, E I Kulish, and S V Kolesov   Research and Calculation of Operating Conditions of Clearing of Gas in a Rotoklon 55 R R Usmanova and G E Zaikov  5 The Effect of the Modification of Silica-Gelatin Hybrid Systems on The Properties of Some Paper Products 77 Przemysław Pietras, Zenon Foltynowicz, Hieronim Maciejewski, and Ryszard Fiedorow   An Influence of a Size and of the Size Distribution of Silver Nanoparticles on Their Surface Plasmon Resonance 93 A R Kytsya, O V Reshetnyak, L І Bazylyak, and Yu M Hrynda   An Influence of the Kinetic Parameters of the Reaction on a Size of Obtained Nanoparticles at the Reduction of Silver Ions by Hydrazine 105 A R Kytsya, Yu M Hrynda, L I Bazylyak, and G E Zaikov   Kinetics and Mechanism of Interaction between Ozone and Rubbers 115 V V Podmasteryev, S D Razumovsky, and G E Zaikov viii Contents   The Intercommunication of Fractal Analysis and Polymeric Cluster Medium Model 131 G V Kozlov, I V Dolbin, Jozef Richert, O V Stoyanov, and G E Zaikov 10 Polymers as Natural Composites: Structure and Properties 147 G V Kozlov, I V Dolbin, Jozef Richert, O V Stoyanov, and G E Zaikov 11 A Lecture Note on Cluster Model of Polymers Amorphous State Structure 203 G V Kozlov, I V Dolbin, Jozef Richert, O V Stoyanov, and G E Zaikov 12 Lecture Notes on Quantum Chemical Calculation 257 V A Babkin, G E Zaikov, D S Andreev, Yu Kalashnikova, Yu S Artemova, and D V Sivovolov 13 Research Methodologies on Physicochemical Properties and Structure of Graphitic Carbons 289 Heinrich Badenhorst 14 The Effect of Antioxidant Compounds on Oxidative Stress in Unicellular Aquatic Organisms 323 O V Karpukhina, K Z Gumargalieva, and A N Inozemtsev 15 A Lecture Note on Determination of Acid Force of Components of Synthesis of 1-[2-(О-Acetylmethyl)-3-О-Acetyl-2-Ethyl]Methyldichlorinephosphite 331 V A Babkin, V U Dmitriev, G A Savin, E S Titova, and G E Zaikov 16 Research Methodology on Design and Synthesis of Hydrogel-Based Supports 339 D Horák and H Hlídková Index 361 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS D S Andreev Volgograd State Architect-build University, Sebrykov Department Michurin Street 21, Michailovka, Volgograd region, Russia Yu S Artemova Volgograd State Architect-build University, Sebrykov Department Michurin Street 21, Michailovka, Volgograd region, Russia V A Babki Volgograd State Architect-Build University Sebrykov Department, 403300 Michurin Street 21, Michailovka, Volgograd region, Russia, E-mail: sfi@reg.avtlg.ru Heinrich Badenhorst SARChI Chair in Carbon Materials and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Pretoria, Lynwood Road, Pretoria, Gauteng, 0002, South Africa, P.O Box 66464, Highveld Ext 7, Centurion, Gauteng, 0169, South Africa, Tel.: +27 12 420 4173; Fax: +27 12 420 2516; E-mail: heinrich.badenhorst@up.ac.za L I Bazylyak Physical Chemistry of Combustible Minerals DepartmentInstitute of Physical−Organic Chemistry & Coal Chemistry named after L M LytvynenkoNational Academy of Sciences of Ukraine3а Naukova Str., Lviv–53, 79053, UKRAINEe–mail: andriy_kytsya@yahoo.com V U Dmitriev Volgograd State Architect-Build University Sebrykov Departament, 403300 Michurin Street 21, Michailovka, Volgograd region, Russia, E-mail: sfi@reg.avtlg.ru I V Dolbin Kabardino-Balkarian State University, Nal’chik – 360004, Chernyshevsky st., 173, Russian Federation, E-mail: I_dolbin@mail.ru K Z Gumargalieva N.N.Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, RAS, Kosygin Street H Hlídková Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i Heyrovský Sq 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic D Horák Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i Heyrovský Sq 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic, E-mail: horak@imc.cas.cz Yu M Hrynda Physical Chemistry of Combustible Minerals Department, Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry and Coal Chemistry, NAS of Ukraine, 3a Naukova Str.Lviv, 79053, E-mail: Ukraineandriy_kytsya@ yahoo.com Research Methodology on Design and Synthesis 347 FIGURE 16.1  LVSEM micrographs showing frozen cross-section of PHEMA hydrogels prepared with (a) 41.4 vol.%, Run 1, (b) 40 vol.%, Run 3, and (c) 37.9 vol.% NaCl (250– 500 µm), Run PHEMA cross-linked with wt.% EDMA (relative to monomers) Interconnection of pores is of vital importance for cell ingrowths in future applications to tissue regeneration This feature was tested by the permeability of the whole hydrogels for different kinds of microspheres under two microscopic observations First, cross-sections of the frozen hydrogels filled with microspheres were observed in LVSEM Second, the water-swollen hydrogels were flowed through by a suspension of microspheres in water and their dried cross-sections were then viewed in HVSEM LVSEM showed water-swollen morphology of hydrogel constructs, which preserved due to their freezing in liquid nitrogen PHEMA Run prepared with neat NaCl (Fig 16.2a) was compared with Run obtained in the presence of NaCl together with a mixture of CyOH/DOH (Fig 16.2d) Addition of liquid porogens did not change the morphology; however, it increased the pore volume (from 0.21 to 0.45 mL CX/g, Table 16.1) and softness of the hydrogel As a result, it had a tendency to disintegrate during the washing procedure LVSEM of both PHEMA hydrogels filled with 2-µm ammonolyzed PGMA and 200–400 nm PANI microspheres is illustrated in Fig 16.2b, e and Fig 16.2c, f, respectively The micrographs showed undistorted morphology of the frozen hydrogels, but just a few microspheres and/or their agglomerates This was attributed to the fact that most of them were washed out during preparation of the sample for LVSEM 348 Materials Science and Engineering Vol FIGURE 16.2  LVSEM micrographs showing frozen cross-section of PHEMA constructs; (a–c) Run 3, (d–f) Run 8; (a, d) neat and filled with (b, e) 2-mm ammonolyzed PGMA and (c, f) 200–400 nm PANI microspheres Morphology of the PHEMA hydrogels flowed through by a suspension of microspheres was observed by HVSEM Figure 16.3 shows HVSEM micrographs of cross-sections of the top and bottom part of the hydrogels from Runs 3, and flowed through by a suspension of 8-µm sulfonated PSt microspheres in water While the microspheres flowed through the hydrogel construct from Run 3, they did not penetrate the ones from Run and prepared in the presence of a rather low content of NaCl (37.9 vol.%) At the same time, surface and inner structure of the hydrogels slightly differed Figure 16.4 shows HVSEM of the longitudinal section of the PHEMA scaffold obtained with cubic NaCl crystals as a porogen (Run 7) While Fig 16.4a shows the bulk, Fig 16.4b–d detailed sections Again, small superpores with an average size about 13 mm were in the walls between the large superpores, forming small channels through which water flowed To prove or exclude the interconnection of at least some pores, a suspension of 8-µm sulfonated polystyrene (PSt) microspheres in water was poured on the center of the topside of the gel While water flowed through the hydrogel bulk, the microspheres were retained on the surface of the hydrogel or penetrated only superficial layers due to the surface Research Methodology on Design and Synthesis 349 cracks (Fig 16.4 a,b) This confirmed that the pores of PHEMA hydrogels obtained with a low content of NaCl porogen (35.9 vol.%) did not communicate In contrast, Fig 16.5 presents longitudinal section of the PHEMA hydrogel from Run (both bulk and detailed) obtained with needle-like (NH4)2SO4 crystals as a porogen This porogen allowed formation of connected pores, which is explained by the needle-like structure of ammonium sulfate crystals that are linked to the gel structure At the same time, the crystals grew to large structures due to the presence of saturated (NH4)2SO4 solution in the feed As a result, long interconnected large superpores—channels—were formed This is documented in Fig 16.5a–d by the fact that suspension of 8-µm sulfonated PSt microspheres in water deposited in the center of the topside of the hydrogel flowed through The captured microspheres are well visible in Fig 16.5b–d They accumulated at the places of pore narrowing; their majority, however, was found on the bottom part of the hydrogel In such a way, the flow of water suspension of microspheres in the hydrogel was traced FIGURE 16.3  HVSEM micrographs of PHEMA hydrogels Run (a, d), Run (b, e) and Run (c, f) showing top (a–c) and bottom (d–f) of the hydrogels after the flow of a suspension of 8-µm sulfonated PSt microspheres in water 350 Materials Science and Engineering Vol FIGURE 16.4  Selected HVSEM micrographs showing longitudinal section of PHEMA hydrogel mm thick (Run 7) obtained with NaCl (250–500 µm) as a porogen after passing of a suspension of 8-µm sulfonated PSt microspheres in water (in the direction of the dotted line) (a) The whole cross-section through the hydrogel and selected details from (b) top, (c) center and (d) bottom PSt microspheres are denoted with white arrows Research Methodology on Design and Synthesis 351 FIGURE 16.5  Selected HVSEM micrographs showing longitudinal section of PHEMA hydrogel mm thick (Run 9) obtained with (NH4)2SO4 (100 ì 600 àm) as a porogen after passing of a suspension of 8-µm sulfonated PSt microspheres in water (in the direction of the dotted line) (a) The whole section through the construct and selected details from (b) top, (c) center and (d) bottom PSt microspheres are denoted with white arrows 352 Materials Science and Engineering Vol Mechanical properties of the porous constructs were sensitive to the concentration of porogen in the feed Hydrogels with lower contents of NaCl and therefore higher proportion of PHEMA had thicker walls between the pores and were more compact allowing increased swelling of polymer chains in water Two PHEMA hydrogels with the highest contents of NaCl in the feed (41.4 vol.%—Run and 40.8 vol.%—Run 2) possessing thin polymer walls between large superpores easily disintegrated as well as hydrogel prepared using (NH4)2SO4 (42.3 vol.%—Run 9) 16.3.2  CHARACTERIZATION OF POROSITY BY SOLVENT REGAIN Dependences of porosity of PHEMA hydrogels calculated from water or cyclohexane regain and also from mercury porosimetry on NaCl content in the polymerization feed showed similar behavior (Fig 16.6) Porosities 81–91 and 49–57% for water regain were obtained by suction and centrifugation, respectively, 14–42% for cyclohexane regain and 31–70% for mercury porosimetry The porosity determined by centrifugation of samples soaked with water and cyclohexane (solvents with different affinities to polar methacrylate chain) consists of two contributions: filling of the pores and swelling (solvation) of PHEMA chains The uptake of cyclohexane, a thermodynamically poor solvent that cannot swell the polymer, is a result of the former contribution only, reflecting thus the pore volume The water regain from centrifugation was always higher than the cyclohexane regain demonstrating thus swelling of polymer chains with water (Table 16.1) Solvent regains were affected by the concentration of NaCl porogen in the polymerization feed Porosities according to both water and cyclohexane regains by centrifugation slightly increased with increasing volume of NaCl porogen in the polymerization feed from 35.9 to 40 vol.% and then decreased with a further NaCl increase up to 41.4 vol.% (Fig 16.6) In the latter range of NaCl, the porosity evaluated by mercury porosimetry exhibited an analogous dependence This decrease in solvent and mercury regains can be explained by thin polymer walls between large superpores inducing collapse of the porous structure In the concentration range of NaCl in the feed 35.9–40 vol.%, mercury porosimetry provided Research Methodology on Design and Synthesis 353 higher porosities than those obtained from regains by centrifugation at 980 g because it obviously did not retain solvents in large superpores Retained water reflected thus only small superpores, closed pores and solvation of the polymer in water similarly as observed earlier for macroporous PHEMA scaffolds [34] Water regain was determined also by the suction method (Table 16.1) which gave the values several times higher (3.3–7.5 mL/g) than by centrifugation due to filling all the pores in the polymer structure, including large superpores As expected, porosity by the suction method increased with increasing volume of NaCl porogen in the polymerization feed (Fig 16.6) FIGURE 16.6  Dependence of porosity of PHEMA hydrogels determined from cyclohexane (■) and water regain measured by centrifugation (●) or suction (▼) and mercury porosimetry (▲) on the content of NaCl (250–500 µm) porogen in the polymerization feed The hydrogel from Run formed in the presence of NaCl and CyOH/ DOH porogen showed higher solvent regains and mercury penetration than the comparable hydrogel from Run obtained with the same content of neat NaCl (Table 16.1) This can be explained by the higher total amount of porogen in the former hydrogel In contrast, the hydrogel from 354 Materials Science and Engineering Vol Run prepared with needle-like (NH4)2SO4 crystals as a porogen had the lowest solvent and mercury regains of all the samples The exception was water regain by centrifugation, which was identical with that of sample Run (Table 16.1) having a similar content of the NaCl porogen in the feed This can imply that only large continuous superpores were present in this hydrogel and small superpores, macro and mesopores were almost absent as evidenced by the low values of solvent and mercury regains 16.3.3  CHARACTERIZATION OF POROSITY BY MERCURY POROSIMETRY The advantage of mercury porosimetry is that it provides not only pore volumes, but also pore size distribution not available by other techniques The method measures samples dried by lyophilization, which does not distort the pore structure As already mentioned, porosities determined by mercury porosimetry were lower than those obtained from water regain by the suction, which included large superpores, and higher than those from water and cyclohexane regain detected by centrifugation This was due to better filling of the compact xerogel structures obtained at lower contents of NaCl in the feed with mercury under a high pressure than with water or cyclohexane under atmospheric pressure Figure 16.7 shows the dependence of most frequent mesopore size of PHEMA scaffolds and their pore volumes on the NaCl porogen content in the polymerization feed Predominantly, 4–5 nm mesopores were detected with their volume increasing from 0.03 to 0.1 mL/g with increasing NaCl content in the polymerization feed Macropores were absent and very low values of specific surface areas (