Correlation between mesh size and equilibrium degree of swelling of polymeric networks
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Biomedical Materials Research
- Vol. 23 (10), 1183-1193
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jbm.820231007
Abstract
A correlation is established between the mesh size of a swollen cross-linked network and its equilibrium polymer volume fraction, for hydrogels isothermally swollen up to semidilute, dilute, or concentrated conditions. The exponent of this correlation decreases as the water concentration of the hydrogel decreases. Experimental results with hydrogels of poly(vinyl alcohol) and poly(2-hydroxy ethyl methacrylate) are used to verify the new scaling laws.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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