ABSTRACT

The cationic water-soluble polyelectrolytes find wide application in different branches of industry, particularly, for the ecological goals solution [1]. It is necessary to determine for these polymers action mechanism and synthesis process understanding their molecular sizes and also water solutions properties [2]. Unlike uncharged and syntactic polymers the cationic polyelectrolytes water solutions are not studied well. Lately it has been shown, that the fractal analysis methods can be used successfully for the description of both synthesis processes [3] and their action mechanism as flocculators [4]. Therefore, the authors [5] studied the cationic polyelectrolytes in solution behavior on the example of copolymers of acrylamide with trimethylammonium methylmethacrylatechloride (PAA-TMACh), using the fractal analysis methods. The data of work [2] for the four copolymers PAA-TMACh with the last contents of 8, 25, 50 and 100 molar % were used for this purpose. The authors [2] obtained for these polymers the equations of Mark-Kuhn-Houwink type (see the Eq. (57) of Chapter 1), which linked the intrinsic viscosity [η] and macromolecular coil gyration radius Rg with polymer average weight molecular weight

where gRK and b are constants for each copolymer.