Thermodynamics of phase equilibrium for systems containing N-isopropyl acrylamide hydrogels |
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Authors: | Viktor Ermatchkov Luciana NinniGerd Maurer |
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Affiliation: | Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 30 49, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany |
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Abstract: | Hydrogels are crosslinked polymers of hydrophilic monomers. Hydrogels can swell and shrink in aqueous solutions. The swelling behavior of hydrogels and the encountered phase behavior are of interest in many areas, e.g., in biotechnology, membrane science and controlled drug release. This contribution presents the criteria for such phase equilibria and a previously developed thermodynamic model for correlating/predicting the swelling and shrinking of hydrogels. The application of the method is demonstrated by describing the swelling equilibrium of some synthetic, non-ionic N-isopropyl acrylamide (N-IPAAm) hydrogels in aqueous solutions of sodium chloride at 298 K. Furthermore, new experimental results are presented for the degree of swelling of synthetic hydrogels that contain – besides the non-ionic monomer N-IPAAm – either a combination of a cationic comonomer (here, N-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]methacrylamide (DMAPMA)) and an anionic comonomer (here, 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-1-propanesulfonic acid (AMPS)) or a zwitterionic comonomer (here, [3-(methacryloylamino)propyl]dimethyl(3-sulfopropyl)ammonium hydroxide inner salt (MPSA)). These gels were equilibrated with aqueous solutions of sodium chloride at 298 K. |
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Keywords: | Synthetic non-ionic and ionic hydrogels Swelling behavior N-isopropyl acrylamide N-IPAAm hydrogels Anionic Cationic and zwitterionic comonomers AMPS DMAPMA MPSA Thermodynamic model |
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