Swelling of sodium acrylate gels |
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Authors: | T. Komori H. Takahashi N. Okamoto |
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Affiliation: | (1) Present address: Faculty of Engineering, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan |
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Abstract: | The swelling process of sodium acrylate gel is experimentally investigated. It is found that sodium acrylate gels weakly crosslinked with N,N-methylene-bis-acrylamide may undergo volume phase transition and that different kinds of mechanical instabilities occur in sequence at the transition. Peculiar wrinkle patterns appear on the free surface of an unstable gel and are changed in geometry as swelling proceeds. Cellular patterns seen at various instances in the late period of swelling are ascertained to be geometrically similar to each other and different only in size. The radii of spherical acrylate gels allowed to swell in water are measured as functions of time. The results are discussed and compared with the kinetic theories of swelling. As a result, these theories are proved to be unsatisfactory to fully describe the experimental facts. |
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Keywords: | Gel sodiumacrylate swelling phasetransition surfacepattern |
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