Three types of gums of plant origin taken from young trunks of fir, cherry and acacia trees were used in the presented research. The collected plant origin gums were dissolved separately for 24 h with continuous stirring, filtered and redried and grinded into powder and their solutions with concentrations of 250, 500, 1000 and 2000 mg/L were prepared. The viscosities of gum of plant origin in fresh water and in the presence of salt and surfactant, as well as the dependence of these viscosities on the amount of plant origin gum and temperature, were studied. It was determined that it is impossible to achieve a viscosity of 80 mPa×s when the density of cherry gum is lower than 5 g/L. At concentrations of 3.5 g/L and 2.0 g/L, acacia and fir gums give the solution a viscosity of ~80 mPa×s. It has been shown that all three biopolymers retain their physico-chemical properties up to 2400C, and solutions made from gums can be used for compression of oil even in high-temperature wells

Over the past few decades, a significant increase in the use of heavy metals has led to an increase in the amount of metals in the aquatic environment. For living organisms, among heavy metals, copper (II) is one of the toxic metals and one of the most common environmental pollutants. Excessive concentrations of Cu2+ ions can cause various diseases and intoxications in humans. In this regard, the use of absorbents for the sorption of metals is both an economically and technologically efficient method. Quaternized natural polymer chitosan was used as a sorbent to study the sorption properties of copper (II) ion. During the research, the optimal conditions of the sorption process was determined, pH effect of the environment, initial concentration of the metal on the sorption process were studied. The sorption capacity of the synthesized sorbent towards the Cu (II) ion was studied and it was determined that the maximum sorption capacity equal to 255 mg/g was at pH=4. Moreover the influence of copper (II) ion concentration on the sorption process was studied. It was found that the sorption capacity and sorption degree of the sorbent increase with an increase in the concentration of the Cu2+ ion in the solution. It was determined that the maximum sorption capacity was 406 mg /g, which corresponds to the concentration of copper (II) ion, equal to 10∙10-2 mol/L. The results show that quaternized chitosan-based sorbent can be successfully used for the sorption of Cu (II) ion

Poly-N-vinylpyrrolidone is widely used among synthetic polymers due to its non-toxicity and solubility in water and other organic solvents. Complex compounds with metals and non-metals find widespread application in various fields of industry and medicine. The purpose of this study is to synthesize metal-polymer complexes for obtaining a new type of catalyst. Poly-N-vinylpyrrolidone was first dissolved in water and then re-mixed with the addition of the PdCl2 salt. A reducing agent was added to the solution, and finally the resulting substance was established by means of a binder. The same process was typical for MnCl2 salt. Complexes obtained studied by various research methods (FTIR, XRD, SEM, UV-Vis). Proceeding from the results of the research methods, we can say that the construction process was successful and the metal nanoparticles settled on the surface and inside the polymer. The obtained complex compounds are intended to be used as catalysts

Network polymer hydrogels with high swelling effect were synthesized by using of ultraviolet crosslinking, with crosslinking agent N,N'-methylene-bis-acrylamide with chitosan an average molecular weight of 100-300 kDa t. The amount of crosslinking agent made up 10% of chitosan weight. The gel structure was studied using FTIR and the mechanism of the cross-linking process identified. The sorption of levofloxacin on the obtained hydrogel was studied at different pH and the degree of sorption and the dependence of the sorption capacity of the hydrogel on the pH of the medium was studied. It found that the degree of sorption of hydrogel by levofloxacin is 90.4 % while the sorption capacity of gel increases as pH of the medium rises and at pH=8 it has the highest value equal to 8.9 mg/g.