Effect of prepolymer architecture on the network structure formed by AB-type crosslink-coupling

Polymer Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 14-20

  Kondo, Shinji ^a   Chung, Ung Il ^a   Sakai, Takamasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

heterogeneities; hydrogels; polymer network structure; prepolymers

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SIZES; HETEROGENEITIES; HOMOGENEOUS NETWORK; NETWORK STRUCTURES; POLYMER NETWORKS; PREPOLYMERS; RUBBER ELASTICITY; ULTIMATE ELONGATION;

ELASTICITY; GELS; HYDROGELS; MONOMERS; POLYMERS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84891775688     PISSN: 00323896     EISSN: 13490540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pj.2013.65     Document Type: Article

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