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ACS OMEGA
卷 5, 期 30, 页码 18758-18765出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c01821
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- Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) through the Oil Spill Response Science (OSRS) program
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada (CREATE NanoMat grant)
- Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Killam Postdoctoral Fellowships
- University of British Columbia
The simple structural modification of replacing a terminal carboxylic acid with a primary amide group was found to lower the minimum gelation concentration (MGC), by at least an order of magnitude, for a series of N-lauroyl-L-amino acid phase-selective organogelators in decane. The amide-functionalized analogue N-lauroyl-L-alanine-CONH2 was demonstrated to gel a broad range of solvents from diesel to THE at MGCs of 2.5% w/v or less, as well as to produce gels with a higher thermal stability (ca. 30 degrees C) and enhanced mechanical properties (5 times increase in complex modulus), compared to the carboxylic acid analogue, N-lauroyl-L-alanine-COOH. These improved properties may be due to the additional hydrogen bonding in the primary amide analogue as revealed by SCXRD. Most significantly for this study, the introduction of the primary amide functionality enabled N-lauroyl-L-alanine-CONFI, to form a self-assembled fibrillar network in water. The aqueous network could then actively uptake and rapidly gel decane, diesel, and diluted bitumen (dilbit) with MGCs of 2.5% w/v or less. This aqueous delivery method is advantageous for oil-remediation applications as no harmful carrier solvents are required and the gel can be easily separated from the water, allowing the oil to be recovered and the gelator recycled.
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