Synthesis and Characterization of hydrophobically modified Template associating Polyacrylamide

The water-soluble hydrophobically associating polymers are kinds of polymers containing a small number of hydrophobic groups attached directly to the polymer back bone. In aqueoussolutions, the hydrophobic groups of these polymers can associate to minimize their exposure to the solvent and resultsin an increase in the hydrodynamic size of the polymer that increase the solution viscosity. These polymers have potentialapplications in many fields including enhanced oil recovery,water treatment, etc [1-2]. In the template polymerization method, the polymeric chain grows along the template as aresult of the interactions between the monomer and the template, and a designed specific sequences or configurationscan be obtained [2-4]. Polymers prepared with template showed stronger association ability than that prepared without template for its longer hydrophobic block structure.