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US 11,111,356 B2Granted
Attrition-resistant superabsorbent polymer, method for preparing the same and composition for preparing the same
AssigneeLG Chem, Ltd.
InventorsYoung-In Yang, Young Sam Kim, Bo-Hee Park, Su-Jin Kim
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Abstract
An attrition-resistant superabsorbent polymer and a preparation method thereof are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an attrition resistant superabsorbent polymer includes a superabsorbent polymer having a crosslinked surface, water, particles, a multivalent metal salt, an organic acid and a polyhydric alcohol, wherein the particles having a BET specific surface area of 300 to 1500 m2/g and a porosity of 50% or more.
Claims8
An attrition-resistant superabsorbent polymer comprising:
- a superabsorbent polymer having a crosslinked surface;
- water;
- particles;
- aluminum sulfate;
- citric acid;
- and
- propylene glycol,
- wherein the particles have a BET specific surface area of 300 to 1500 m2/g and
- a porosity of 50% or more,
- wherein the water, the particles, the citric acid, and the propylene glycol are present in respective amounts of 2.5 to 7.5 parts, 0.001 to 2.0 parts, 0.001 to 5.0 parts and 0.01 to 5.0 parts based on 100 parts by weight of the superabsorbent polymer, and
- wherein the attrition resistant superabsorbent polymer has a change in particle size before and after ball milling of −5.8% to −9.0%, wherein the ball milling was performed for 20 min at 300 rpm using 20 g of the attrition resistant superabsorbent polymer in the presence of 10 alumina balls, each alumina ball having 2.5 cm diameter.
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A method for preparing an attrition-resistant superabsorbent polymer comprising:
- adding water, particles, aluminum sulfate, citric acid and propylene glycol to a superabsorbent polymer having a crosslinked surface to prepare an attrition-resistant superabsorbent polymer,
- wherein the water, the particles, the citric acid, and the propylene glycol are added in respective amounts of 2.5 to 7.5 parts, 0.001 to 2.0 parts, 0.001 to 5.0 parts and 0.01 to 5.0 parts based on 100 parts by weight of the superabsorbent polymer,
- wherein the particles having a BET specific surface area of 300 to 1500 m2/g and a porosity of 50% or more, and
- wherein the attrition resistant superabsorbent polymer has a change in particle size before and after ball milling of −5.8% to −9.0%, wherein the ball milling was performed for 20 min at 300 rpm using 20 g of the attrition resistant superabsorbent polymer in the presence of 10 alumina balls, each alumina ball having 2.5 cm diameter.
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