Exhaustive Soxhlet extraction for the complete removal of residual compounds to provide a nonleaching silicone elastomer

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 445-448

  Gruber, Alicia D ^a,d   Widenhouse, Chris W ^b   Mathes, Steven ^a   Gruber, Ronald P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Stanford University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Silicone elastomers; Silicone leaching; Soxhlet extraction

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; CURING; ELASTOMERS; IMPURITIES; LEACHING; MIXTURES; SILICONES;

INDUCTIVELY COILED PLASMA; RESIDUAL COMPOUND; SILICONE ELASTOMER; SILICONE LEACHING; SOXHLET EXTRACTION;

EXTRACTION;

OLIGOMER; SILASTIC; SILICONE OIL;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; DIFFUSION; EXTRACTION; LEACHING; SAMPLE;

EID: 0033814141     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-4636(200009)53:5<445::AID-JBM1>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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