کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5189835 1381193 2005 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Fabrication and characterization of microgel-impregnated, thermosensitive PNIPAAm hydrogels
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه شیمی شیمی آلی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Fabrication and characterization of microgel-impregnated, thermosensitive PNIPAAm hydrogels
چکیده انگلیسی
Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PNIPAAm/PEG-DA) microgels were used as an additive during the polymerization and/or crosslinking of PNIPAAm hydrogels to improve their thermosensitive properties. The influence of this additive on the property of resulting PNIPAAm hydrogels was investigated and characterized. The interior morphology by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) revealed that microgel impregnated PNIPAAm hydrogels have tighter and constrained porous network structures, although large cavities of 30-40 μm in diameter, occupied by the microgels were sporadically distributed in this constrained network. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) studies did not show apparent difference in lower critical solution temperature (LCST) between normal and microgel-impregnated PNIPAAm hydrogels. The incorporating of PNIPAAm/PEG-DA microgels, however, significantly improved mechanical properties of modified hydrogels when comparing with a normal PNIPAAm hydrogel, although the tendency was not strictly proportional to the microgel amount. Based on the temperature-induced swelling ratio data as well as response kinetics, microgel-impregnated hydrogels exhibited improved thermosensitive characteristics in terms of higher equilibrium swelling ratio as well as faster response rates and the level of improvement depended on the amount of microgel impregnated.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Polymer - Volume 46, Issue 23, 14 November 2005, Pages 9664-9673
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