Graphene oxide–enriched double network hydrogel with tunable physico-mechanical properties and performance

Reactive and Functional Polymers

Volumn 106, Issue , 2016, Pages 120-131

  Mohammadi, Sepideh ^a,b   Keshvari, Hamid ^b   Eskandari, Mahnaz ^b   Faghihi, Shahab ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cross link density; Double network hydrogel; Graphene oxide; Nanocomposite; Physico mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; CARBON; CROSSLINKING; DEGRADATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GRAPHENE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMERIZATION; POROSITY; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CROSS-LINK DENSITIES; DOUBLE-NETWORK HYDROGELS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; GRAPHENE OXIDES; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; NANOCOMPOSITE HYDROGELS; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 84979884682     PISSN: 13815148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2016.07.015     Document Type: Article

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