Beijing University of Technology

Hongxia Guo

Xiao Xi Liu

Yali Wang

Xiaoyu Ma

Jie Zhu

Ziming Wang

Suping Cui

Mingzhang Lan

Jinbo Yang

Qianjin Mao

This invention relates to a method for preparing a star-shaped polycarboxylate superplasticizer by the first esterification step with polyol and (meth)acrylic acid as main reactants and the second polymerization step. In the first step, the star-shaped polymerizable active ends were synthesized by esterification between polyol and (meth)acrylic acid in the presence of catalyst. In the second step, the final star-shaped polycarboxylate superplasticizer was prepared by radical polymerization among the product obtained in first step, unsaturated polyoxyethylene ethers, molecular weight regulator and unsaturated carboxylic acid in the presence of initiator. The production process of this invention exhibits some characteristics including simple, easily controllable, high polymerization degree, low cost and pollution free. The star-shaped molecular structure of polycarboxylate superplasticizer can be achieved through synthesizing active 'core' by esterification and 'arm' by radical polymerization. It showed better cement paste fluidity and fluidity retention, which manifested as better adaptability to cement and application performance in concrete, than both traditional linear and comb-shaped polycarboxylate superplasticizer at common or lower dosage.

Preparation method of high-performance star-shaped polycarboxylate superplasticizer

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