Tailoring the structural properties of macroporous electron-beam polymerized cryogels by pore forming agents and the monomer selection

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-44

  Reichelt, Senta ^a   Prager, Andrea ^a   Abe, Christian ^a   Knolle, Wolfgang ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF SURFACE ENGINEERING IOM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryogels; Electron beam irradiation; Mercury intrusion porosimetry; PEG; Porous systems

Indexed keywords

CRYOGELS; ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION; MACROPOROUS STRUCTURES; MERCURY INTRUSION POROSIMETRY; POROUS SYSTEM; PULSED ELECTRON BEAMS; SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES; SWELLING CHARACTERISTICS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON BEAMS; MERCURY (METAL); MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOELECTRONS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

MONOMERS;

MACROGOL;

ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; CRYOGEL; ELASTICITY; ELECTRON BEAM; MATERIAL COATING; MATERIAL STATE; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84887821013     PISSN: 0969806X     EISSN: 18790895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2013.04.010     Document Type: Article

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