RHEOLOGICAL APPROACH FOR AGRICULTURAL HYDROGELS

1 Kratochvílová Romana
Co-authors:
1 Klučáková Martina 1 Sedláček Petr 1 Smilek Jiří 2 Kráčalík Milan
Institutions:
1 Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Brno, Czech Republic, EU
2 University of Johannes Kepler, Institute of Polymer Science, Linz, Austria, EU
Conference:
7th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application, Hotel Voronez I, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, October 14th - 16th 2015
Proceedings:
Proceedings 7th International Conference on Nanomaterials - Research & Application
Pages:
202-206
ISBN:
978-80-87294-59-8
ISSN:
2694-930X
Published:
11th January 2016
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
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Abstract

A soil in region of Czech Republic and Austria is continuously losing its natural property to retain water in its structure. Most of the water which comes from rains just goes through the soil into the groundwater and agricultural lands suffer by the lack of humidity. One of the reasons of this strange soil behaviour is caused by decreasing amount of organic soil matter. Solution of this problem can be found in application of superabsorbent polymers enriched by addition of active substance based on humic acids. This system of controlled released preparation is able to retain more water in the ground together with sustainable supply of humic acids which are important part of organic soil matter. Rheological properties of samples superabsorbent polymers enriched by humic acids were determined to prove if they are able to resist certain mechanical mechanical stress which they will have to hold out after agricultural application.

Keywords: Superabsorbent, Hydrogel, Controlled release, Fertilizer, Rheometry, Swelling

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