Swelling of polyacrylamide gels in aqueous solutions of ethylene glycol oligomers

Polymer Gels and Networks

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 339-356

  Kayaman, Nilhan ^a   Okay, Oǧuz ^a,b   Baysal, Bahattin M ^a,c  

^a MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; COPOLYMERS; CROSSLINKING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OLIGOMERS; POLYAMIDES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SOLUTIONS; SWELLING;

ACRYLIC ACID; POLYACRYLAMIDE;

GELS;

EID: 0031197499     PISSN: 09667822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-7822(97)00005-1     Document Type: Article

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