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Swelling and elasticity of hydrogels based on poly(ethylene oxide) macroinimer
Author(s) -
Melekaslan Demet,
Kasapoglu Fatmanur,
Ito Koichi,
Yagci Yusuf,
Okay Oguz
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
polymer international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.592
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-0126
pISSN - 0959-8103
DOI - 10.1002/pi.1334
Subject(s) - self healing hydrogels , swelling , ethylene oxide , photopolymer , materials science , monomer , polymer chemistry , elasticity (physics) , chemical engineering , oxide , polymer , polymer science , composite material , copolymer , engineering , metallurgy
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