polyelectrolyte

Organic-inorganic materials have been synthesized by photoinitiated copolymerization of monomers: acrylonitrile, acrylamide and 3-sulphopropyl acrylate potassium salt in the presence of sol-gel systems based on tetraethoxysilane. Thermal stability, water uptake and ion-exchange capacity of obtained materials have been determined. Undertaken studies may be used for development of protonconductive membrane for fuel cells.

Some ways of estimating the values of the intrinsic viscosity of chitosan were analyzed. It was shown that the method of Irzhak and Baranov for estimating the current value of the intrinsic viscosity allows to adequately estimates the conformational state of the macromolecular coil and its degree of swelling.