Modeling and simulation of pH-sensitive hydrogels

Colloid and Polymer Science

Volumn 289, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 535-544

  Wallmersperger, Thomas ^a   Keller, Karsten ^b   Kröplin, Bernd ^b   Günther, Margarita ^c   Gerlach, Gerald ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID MECHANICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical stimulation; Coupled chemo electro mechanical multi field formulation; Dissociation reactions; Numerical simulation; pH sensitive gels; Polyelectrolyte gels

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL STIMULATION; DISSOCIATION REACTIONS; MULTI-FIELD; PH SENSITIVE; POLYELECTROLYTE GELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GELS; HYDROGELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYELECTROLYTES;

PH;

POLYELECTROLYTE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRESS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HYDROGEL; ION DISPLACEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICS; PH; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 79959258041     PISSN: 0303402X     EISSN: 14351536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00396-011-2404-1     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Flory J, Rehner J (1943) Statistical mechanics of cross-linked polymer networks I. Rubberlike elasticity. J Chem Phys 11(11):512-520
2. Flory J, Rehner J (1943) Statistical mechanics of cross-linked polymer networks II. Swelling. J Chem Phys 11(11):521-526
3. Doi M, Matsumoto M, Hirose Y (1992) Deformation of ionic polymer gels by electric fields. Macromolecules 25:5504-5511 (Pubitemid 23572186)
4. Shiga T, Kurauchi T (1990) Deformation of polyelectrolyte gels under the influence of electric field. J Appl Polym Sci 39:2305-2320 (Pubitemid 20706453)
5. Shahinpoor M (1995) Micro-electro-mechanics of ionic polymeric gels as electrically controllable artificial muscles. J Intell Mater Syst Struct 6:307-314
6. Grimshaw PE, Nussbaum JH, Grodzinsky AJ, Yarmush ML (1990) Kinetics of electrically and chemically induced swelling in polyelectrolyte gels. J Chem Phys 93(6):4462-4472
7. Neubrand W (1999) Modellbildung und Simulation von Elektromembranverfahren. Ph.D. thesis, Universität Stuttgart
8. De SK, Aluru NR, Johnson B (2002) Equilibrium swelling and kinetics of pH-resonsive hydrogels: models, experiments, and simulations. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems 11(5):544-555
9. De SK, Aluru NR (2004) A chemo-electro-mechanical mathematical model for simulation of pH sensitive hydrogels. Mech Mater 36(5-6):395-410
10. Brock D, Lee W, Segalman D, Witkowski W (1994) A dynamic model of a linear actuator based on polymer hydrogel. J Intell Mater Syst Struct 5:764-771
11. Segalman DJ, Witkowski WR, Rao RR, Adolf DB, Shahinpoor M (1993) Finite element simulation of the 2d collapse of a polyelectrolyte gel disk. In: Proceedings of SPIE, vol 1916. pp 14-21
12. Wallmersperger T, Kröplin B, Holdenried J, Gülch RW (2001) A coupled multi-field formulation for ionic polymer gels in electric fields. In: Bar-Cohen Y (ed) 8th international symposium on smart structures and materials. Electroactive polymer actuators and devices, vol 4329, SPIE, 2001, Newport Beach. pp 264-275
13. Wallmersperger T, Kröplin B, Gülch R (2004) Coupled chemo-electro-mechanical formulation for ionic polymer gels - numerical and experimental investigations. Mech Mater 36(5-6):411-420
14. Ballhause D, Wallmersperger T (2008) Coupled chemoelectro-mechanical FE-simulation of hydrogels - part I: chemical stimulation. Smart Mater Struct 17(045011)
15. Wallmersperger T, Ballhause D (2008) Coupled chemoelectro-mechanical FE-simulation of hydrogels-part II: electrical stimulation. Smart Mater Struct 17(045012)
16. Keller K, Wallmersperger T, Kröplin B, Günther M, Gerlach G (2011) Modelling of temperature-sensitive polyelectrolyte gels by the use of the coupled chemo-electro-mechanical formulation. Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (in press)
17. de Gennes PG, Okumura K, Shahinpoor M, Kim KJ (2000) Mechanoelectric effects in ionic gels. Europhys Lett 50(4):513-518
18. Tamagawa H, Taya M (2000) A theoretical prediction of the ions distribution in an amphoteric polymer gel. Mater Sci Eng A 285(1-2):314-325
19. Li H, Luo R, Lam KY (2007) Modeling of ionic transport in electric-stimulus-responsive hydrogels. J Membr Sci 289(1-2):284-296 (Pubitemid 46223471)
20. Orlov Y, Xu X, Maurer G (2006) Equilibrium swelling of n-isopropylacrylamide based ionic hydrogels in aqueous solutions of organic solvents: comparison of experiment with theory. Fluid Phase Equilib 249(1-2):6-16 (Pubitemid 44693046)
21. Orlov Y, Xu X, Maurer G (2007) An experimental and theoretical investigation on the swelling of n-isopropyl acrylamide based ionic hydrogels in aqueous solutions of (sodium chloride or di-sodium hydrogen phosphate). Fluid Phase Equilib 254(1-2):1-10 (Pubitemid 46660355)
22. Scharfer P, Schabel W, Kind M (2007) Mass transport measurements in membranes by means of in situ raman spetroscopy - first results of methanol and water profils in fuel cell membranes. J Membr Sci 303:37-42 (Pubitemid 47348181)
23. Scharfer P, Schabel W, Kind M (2008) Modelling of alcohol and water diffusion in fuel cell membranes. Chem Eng Sci 63(19):4676-4684
24. Mann BA, Holm C, Kremer K (2005) Swelling of polyelectrolyte networks. J Chem Phys 122(15):15493
25. Mann BA, Holm C, Kremer K (2006) The swelling behaviour of charged hydrogels. Macromol Symp 1237:90-107
26. Ehlers W, Markert B, Akartürk A (2002) A continuum approach for 3-d finite viscoelastic swelling of charged tissues and gels. In: Eberhardsteiner J, Mang HA, Rammerstorfer FG (eds) Proceedings of the fifth world congress on computational mechanics, Vienna, Austria, 7-12 July 2002
27. Acartürk A (2009) Simulation of charged hydrated porous materials. PhD thesis, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
28. Walter J, Ermatchkov V, Vrabec J, Hasse H (2010) Molecular dynamics and experimental study of conformation change of poly(n-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogels in water. Fluid Phase Equilib 296:164-172
29. Wallmersperger T, Wittel FK, D'Ottavio M, Kröplin B (2008) Multiscale modeling of polymer gels - chemo-electric model versus discrete element model. Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures 15(3-4):228-234 (Pubitemid 351532041)
30. Guenther M, Gerlach G, Wallmersperger T (2009) Nonlinear effects in hydrogel-based chemical sensors: experiment and modeling. J Intell Mater Syst Struct 20(8):949-961
31. Li H, Ng TY, Yew YK, Lam KY (2005) Modeling and simulation of the swelling behavior of pH-stimulus-responsive hydrogels. Biomacromolecules 6:109-120 (Pubitemid 40277006)
32. Kang B, Dai Y, Shen X, Chen D (2008) Dynamical modeling and experimental evidence on the swelling/deswelling behaviors of pH sensitive hydrogels. Mater Lett 62:3444-3446
33. Trinh TQ, Sorber J, Gerlach G (2009) Design, simulation and experimental characteristics of hydrogel-based piezoresistive pH sensors. In: Physics and engineering of new materials, Springer Proceedings Physics, vol 127, pp 287-294
34. Suthar KJ, Mancini DC, Ghantasala MK (2010) Simulation of the effect of different parameters on the swelling characteristics of a ph-sensitive hydrogel. In: Ounaies Z, Li J (eds) Proceedings of SPIE: behavior and mechanics of multifunctional materials and composites 2010, vol 7644. SPIE
35. Ganji F, Vasheghani-Farahani S, Vasheghani-Farahani E (2010) Theoretical description of hydrogel swelling: a review. Iran Polym J 19(5):375-398
36. Kim B, Flamme KL, Peppas NA (2003) Dynamic swelling behavior of pH-sensitive anionic hydrogels used for protein delivery. J Appl Polym Sci 89:1606-1613 (Pubitemid 36864234)
37. Ohmine I, Tanaka T (1982) Salt effects on the phase transition of ionic gels. J Chem Phys 77(11):5725-5729
38. Rǐcka J, Tanaka T (1984) Swelling of ionic gels: quantitative performance of the Donnan theory. Macromolecules 17:2917-2921
39. Gülch RW, Holdenried J, Weible A, Wallmersperger T, Kröplin B (2000) Polyelectrolyte gels in electric fields: a theoretical and experimental approach. In: SPIE proceedings of smart structures and materials 2000: electroactive polymer actuators and devices (EAPAD), vol 3987. pp 193-202