Kinetics of anhydride formation in xerogels of poly(acrylic acid)

Biomaterials

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 1667-1675

  Blanco Fuente, H ^a   Anguiano Igea, S ^a   Otero Espinar, F J ^a   Blanco Mendez J ^a  

^a Lab de Farmacia Galénica   (Spain)

Author keywords

Activation energy; Anhydride formation; Carbopol ; Cross linking; Reaction kinetics; Xerogel

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ADDITION REACTIONS; COMPACTION; CROSSLINKING; GELS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; REACTION KINETICS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ANHYDRIDE; ANHYDRIDE FORMATION; CARBOPOL; CYCLODEXTRIN; HIGH PRESSURE COMPRESSION; HYDROXYL GROUPS; POLYACRYLIC ACID; WEIGHT LOSS; XEROGELS;

ACRYLICS; HYDROGELS;

ACID ANHYDRIDE; BETA CYCLODEXTRIN; CARBOMER; POLYACRYLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; COMPRESSION; CROSS LINKING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030245565     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0142-9612(96)87646-0     Document Type: Article

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