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Polyacrylamide hydrogels and semi-interpenetrating networks (IPNs) with poly(N-isopropylacrylamide): Mechanical properties by measure of compressive elastic modulus

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Semi-IPN hydrogels (based on cross-linked polyacrylamide having poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PN1PAAm) inside) were synthesized and their properties, such as swelling ratio and compressive elastic moduli, were studied at several temperatures. Equilibrium swelling ratios of semi-IPN markedly decreased due to the presence of less hydrophilic PNIPAAm chains. The semi-IPN presented greater elastic modulus when compared to the cross-linked PAAm hydrogel. The effect was explained as being an additional contribution of the PNIPAAm chains, which collapsed around the PAAm networks, to the elastic modulus. It was pointed out that the PAAm networks support the collapsed chains. According to the results presented in this work, semi-IPN hydrogels present better mechanical properties than the PAAm hydrogel, mainly when the PNIPAAm chains are in a collapsed state.

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  1. Departamento de Qui´mica, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, 87020-900, Maringá,Paraná, Brazil

    E.C. Muniz

  2. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, CP 206/1 B1050, Brussels, Belgium

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Muniz, E., Geuskens, G. Polyacrylamide hydrogels and semi-interpenetrating networks (IPNs) with poly(N-isopropylacrylamide): Mechanical properties by measure of compressive elastic modulus. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine 12, 879–881 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012863705484

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