Kinetics of one-dimensional gel swelling and collapse for large volume change

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 4499-4508

  Singh, Jaspreet ^a   Weber, Martin E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

collapse; Gel; hydrogel; kinetics; poly(N isopropylacrylamide); swelling

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CHEMICAL RELAXATION; DIFFUSION; FUNCTIONS; HYDROGEN; KINETIC THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYAMIDES; SOLVENTS; SWELLING;

COLLAPSE; FICKIAN MODELS; FRACTIONAL APPROACH; ONE DIMENSIONAL; POLYISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE; VOLUME CHANGE;

GELS;

EID: 0030268161     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(96)00254-0     Document Type: Article

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