Strong and Tough Polyion-Complex Hydrogels from Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolytes: A Comparative Study with Polyampholyte Hydrogels

Macromolecules

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2750-2760

  Luo, Feng ^a,b   Sun, Tao Lin ^a   Nakajima, Tasuku ^a   King, Daniel R ^a   Kurokawa, Takayuki ^a   Zhao, Yu ^a   Ihsan, Abu Bin ^a   Li, Xufeng ^a   Guo, Honglei ^a   Gong, Jian Ping ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CHAINS; CHEMICAL BONDS; COPOLYMERIZATION; CROSSLINKING; DYNAMICS; HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; MONOMERS; POLYELECTROLYTES; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS;

CHEMICAL CROSS-LINKING; ENTANGLEMENT CONCENTRATION; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; MICRO-STRUCTURAL OBSERVATIONS; OPPOSITELY CHARGED POLYELECTROLYTES; POLYAMPHOLYTE HYDROGEL; POLYELECTROLYTE CHAIN; RANDOM COPOLYMERIZATION;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 84964797881     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00235     Document Type: Article

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