Purpose. For the cultivation of ornamental crops under controlled conditions in order to obtain environmentally friendly plant products, as well as to regulate the water-physical properties of natural soils.
Application area. Agriculture.
Advantages. Compared with known analogues, it has a number of advantages, in particular: biocompatibility with plant sprouts; high water-retaining and instantaneous absorption capacity (up to 1000%/min); unique sorption capacity in relation to substances of various nature (up to 99% of the initial amount); prolonged and controlled release of incorporated bioelements; monodispersity, thermal stability, optimal rheological parameters; increased yield and productivity (up to 30%); the possibility of obtaining materials of different consistency states and shapes, including in the form of plates (from 10 mm to 20 cm long and 0.5 to 5 mm thick), granules of different diameters (0.5–2.5 mm) or ointment-like amorphous masses.
Description. Artificial soil is a hydrogel substrate with immobilized bioelements based on spatially cross-linked highly dispersed copolymer hydrogels with a branched pore system, consisting of monomers of various chemical nature: hydrophilic (acrylamide), hydrophobic (acrylonitrile), ionic (N) -methylene-bis-acrylamide).