Swelling behaviour of superabsorbent polymers for soil amendment under different loads

Polymers

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2018, Pages

  Lejcuś, Krzysztof ^a   Śpitalniak, Michał ^a   Dabrowska, Jolanta ^a  

^a WROC AW UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Absorbency under load; Hydrogels; Polymers; Swelling rate; Water absorbing geocomposite

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; HYDROGELS; POLYMERS; SOILS; SWELLING;

COPOLYMER OF ACRYLAMIDE; DIFFERENT DENSITIES; GEOCOMPOSITES; SUPERABSORBENT POLYMER; SWELLING RATES; UNDER LOADS; WATER ABSORPTION CAPACITY; WATER RETENTION CAPACITY;

WATER ABSORPTION;

EID: 85043265405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym10030271     Document Type: Article

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