Swelling and elasticity of hydrogels based on poly(ethylene oxide) macroinimer

Autor: Melekaslan, Demet, Kasapoglu, Fatmanur, Ito, Koichi, Yagci, Yusuf, Okay, Oguz
Zdroj: Polymer International; March 2004, Vol. 53 Issue: 3 p237-242, 6p
Abstrakt: A novel method for the preparation of hydrogels based on poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) is presented. A PEO macroinimer possessing both polymerizable and radical generation sites was used to obtain hydrogels having dangling PEO chains. It was shown that PEO macroinimer acts during photopolymerization, both as a monomer and a crosslinker and thus, leads to the formation of hydrogels of various swelling capacities and moduli of elasticity. Copyright © 2004 Society of Chemical Industry
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