Understanding the swelling of poly (N-isopropyl acrylamide) gels through the study of free volume hole size distributions using positron annihilation spectroscopy

Polymer Bulletin

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 577-587

  Patil, Pushkar N ^a   Kathi, Sudarshan ^a   Dutta, Dhanadeep ^a   Pujari, Pradeep K ^a  

^a BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Equilibrium swelling; Free volume; Hydrogel; Positron annihilation spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CROSS-LINKERS; DIFFERENT SOLVENTS; DRY GELS; EQUILIBRIUM SWELLING; ETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMETHACRYLATE; FREE VOLUME DISTRIBUTION; HOLE SIZE; HOLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; N-ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDES; POSITRON ANNIHILATION LIFETIME SPECTROSCOPY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SWELLING PROPERTIES; UV POLYMERIZATION;

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; AMIDES; ELECTRONS; ETHYLENE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FREE VOLUME; HYDROGELS; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; METHANOL; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POSITRON ANNIHILATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SWELLING; TITRATION;

POSITRON ANNIHILATION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77958069579     PISSN: 01700839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00289-010-0267-0     Document Type: Article

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