Synthesis, Characterization and Evaluation of Property Profile of Hybrid Ion- Exchanger

Gum tragancanth based organic-inorganic hybrid ion exchanger has been synthesized using a mixture of sodium tungstate, orthophosphoric acid and potassium iodate. The different reaction conditions like reaction temperature, reaction time, pH of reaction medium, solvent volume, monomer concentration and initiator concentration were optimized in order to get the semi-IPN Gt-cl-poly(AA). Onto semi IPN, methylmethacrylate was incorporated using lipase-gluteraldehyde as the initiator-crosslinker system. The IPN finally was converted into ion-exchanger and was studied for its different physico-chemical properties. Ion exchange capacity was studied for Na+ and effect of different temperatures on ion exchange capacity was evaluated. Characterization was done using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FUR), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and EDS techniques.