Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10613455 | Journal of Controlled Release | 2005 | 14 Pages |
Abstract
According to the compression data, the hardness, the work of cohesion and the work of adhesion of the networks were estimated. Furthermore, by means of relaxation experiments, analysed applying the generalized Maxwell model, the gels can be classified as solid viscoelastic materials and the mechanical spectra indicated a predominance of the viscous behaviour, while the Young modulus, E0, as expected, was found to increase with polymer concentration.
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Authors
Tommasina Coviello, Franco Alhaique, Chiara Parisi, Pietro Matricardi, Gianfranco Bocchinfuso, Mario Grassi,