Polyacrylamide (PAM)

Polyacrylamide (PAM) is a water-soluble polymer that is widely used in various industries. It can be made by homopolymerizing acrylamide or by copolymerizing it with other monomers. The presence of an amide group in its structural unit makes it easy to form hydrogen bonds, thus giving it high water solubility and chemical activity. It can be cross-linked or grafted with various modifiers to form branched-chain or network structures, making it an ideal additive for a wide range of applications such as petroleum mining, water treatment, textile, paper, mineral processing, medicine, agriculture, and more. Polyacrylamide finds its main application in water treatment, papermaking, mining, and metallurgy industries. It is widely used in domestic oil extraction. However, the fastest-growing use is in water treatment and papermaking.