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The improvement of gel strength and absorption properties through the surface-crosslinking of superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) is essential for sanitary industry applications. We prepared core-SAP via aqueous solution copolymerization, and then surface-crosslinked the core-SAP under various conditions. The structure of the SAP was characterized using Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy. Central composite design (CCD) of response surface methodology (RSM) has been applied to determine the optimum surface-crosslinking conditions such as surface-crosslinker content, reaction temperature, and reaction time. The optimal surface-crosslinking conditions were identified at a surface-crosslinker content of 2.22 mol%, reaction temperature of 160 °C, and reaction time of 8.7 min. The surface-crosslinked SAP showed excellent absorbency under load of 50 g/g with a permeability of 50 s. Other absorption properties were also evaluated by measuring the free absorbency and centrifuge retention capacity in saline solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the flower-like FeCo/ZnO composites were successfully firstly prepared by a two-step method, and their microstructures and microwave absorbing properties were characterized. The results show that with an increase of temperature, the content of ZnO loaded on a FeCo/ZnO composite surface was increased. The optimal reflection loss (RL) value can be reached around −53.81 dB at 9.8 GHz, which is obviously superior to results of previous studies and reports, and its effective bandwidth (RL < −10 dB) is 3.8 GHz in the frequency range of 8.7–11.8 GHz with a matching thickness of 1.9 mm. We considered that a large number of lamellar and rod-like ZnO loaded on nano-FeCo single-phase solid solution by two-step method can significantly improve the electromagnetic wave absorption properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]