Water absorption and viscosity behaviour of thermally stable novel graft copolymer of carboxymethyl cellulose and poly(sodium 1-hydroxy acrylate)

A novel thermally stable hydrolysed carboxymethyl cellulose-g-poly(sodium 1-hydroxy acrylate) i. e. CMC-gPNaHA graft copolymer was synthesized from the CMC and vinyl monomer 5-methylene-2-isopropyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-one (MD) in an aqueous medium using an initiator followed by transformation of resulting CMC-g-PMD via alkaline hydrolysis. The graft copolymerization is confirmed by the Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and X-ray diffractometer (XRD). The influence of the CMC and PNaHA content on the properties of the resulting hydrolysed CMC-g-PNaHA graft copolymer was investigated. In comparison with the PNaHA polymer, the resulted hydrolysed CMC-g-PNaHA grafted copolymer has improved thermal stability, water absorption properties, viscosity and weight-average molecular weight.