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US 9,950,309 B2Granted
Superabsorbent polymer having high absorption rate under load and preparation method thereof
AssigneeLG Chem, Ltd.
InventorsSang Gi Lee, Soo Jin Lee, Hye Mi Nam, Min Ho Hwang
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Abstract
Provided are a superabsorbent polymer and a preparation method thereof. In the superabsorbent polymer according to the present invention, a low-temperature foaming agent are used together with a high-temperature foaming agent to control the size and distribution of internal pores of the superabsorbent polymer, thereby increasing absorption rate under load without reduction in gel strength.
Claims8
A porous superabsorbent polymer comprising
- a crosslinked polymer resulting from polymerization and internal crosslinking of a monomer composition comprising acrylic acid-based monomers having acidic groups which are at least partially neutralized, a low-temperature foaming agent, and a high-temperature foaming agent, and
- a surface crosslinking layer formed on the surface of the crosslinked polymer,
- wherein the superabsorbent polymer has centrifuge retention capacity (CRC) as 29.5 g/g or more, absorbency under load (AUL) as 18 g/g or more, gel bed permeability (GBP) as 60 Darcy or more, and 5-min gel-AUL as 18.0 g/g or more,
- wherein a ratio (A:B) of a total pore area (A) of micropores having a diameter of 5 μm to 100 μm and a total pore area (B) of macropores having a diameter of 100 μm to 400 μm in the superabsorbent polymer is 3:7 to 9:1, and the micropores and the micropores have different diameters, and
- a weight ratio of the low-temperature foaming agent and the high-temperature foaming agent is 50:1 to 2:1.
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