Acrylic acid (AA) was grafted onto the powdered isotactic polypropylene (i-
PP) with the electron-beam-induced preirradiation method (Chen, D.-T.; Shi,
N.; Xu, D.-F. J Appl Polym Sci 1999, 73, 1357-1362). Some rare earth ions,
including Sm3+, Nd3+, Eu3+, Gd3+, and Er3+,, were adsorbed onto the grafti
ng product PP-g-AA. The properties of Sm3+ adsorbed were investigated in de
tail. These properties include the influences of the adsorption time, acidi
ty, ion concentration of the solution, grafting yield of AA. onto i-PP, and
temperature on the quantity and efficiency of the ion adsorption. Some kin
etic and thermodynamic equilibrium constants of the adsorption were obtaine
d in the experiments. (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.