A combined effect of freeze-thaw cycles and polymer concentration on the structure and mechanical properties of transparent PVA gels

Biomedical Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gupta, Siddhi ^a   Goswami, Sudipta ^b   Sinha, Arvind ^a  

^a NATIONAL METALLURGICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; GELS; HYDROGELS; POLYMER FILMS; THAWING;

AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT; COMBINED EFFECT; CROSS-LINKED HYDROGELS; CYCLIC FREEZE-THAW; DEGREE OF CRYSTALLINITY; FREEZE-THAW CYCLES; HYDROGEL FILMS; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; PVA HYDROGEL; PVA-GEL; SOLUTION CONCENTRATION; STRUCTURE-PROPERTY CORRELATION;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

POLYMER; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; BIOMATERIAL;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; CELL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FILM; FREEZE THAWING; HYDROGEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SWELLING; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; WETTABILITY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FREEZING; GEL; HARDNESS; HEAT; MATERIALS TESTING; REFRACTOMETRY; YOUNG MODULUS;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTIC MODULUS; FREEZING; GELS; HARDNESS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYMERS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84863046123     PISSN: 17486041     EISSN: 1748605X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-6041/7/1/015006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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