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Understanding of hydrogel network formation and its application in the architecture of significantly enhanced hydrogel
Author(s) -
J. Y. Xiong,
Xiangyang Liu,
Jingliang Li,
Janaky Narayanan,
Rongyao Wang
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.2338007
Subject(s) - nucleation , self healing hydrogels , rheology , network formation , materials science , branching (polymer chemistry) , process (computing) , polymer network , network structure , chemical engineering , computer science , nanotechnology , chemical physics , composite material , polymer , chemistry , distributed computing , polymer chemistry , thermodynamics , physics , engineering , world wide web , operating system
An understanding of the physical hydrogel network formation has been obtained by dynamic rheological experiments. The evidence shows that the network formation turns out to be a nucleation-controlled process. It was found that there exists a critical temperature Tc; fiber branching is greatly enhanced when the network formation is performed in the regime of T

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