Journal
POLYMER
Volume 48, Issue 6, Pages 1718-1728Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2007.01.055
Keywords
hydrogels; pH/temperature sensitive; rapid response
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- National Research Foundation of Korea [과C6A1908] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Novel dual temperature- and pH-sensitive comb-type grafted poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-acrylic acid) (P(NIPAM-co-AAc)) hydrogels were successfully prepared by grafting PNIPAM chains with freely mobile ends onto the backbone of a cross-linked P(NIPAM-co-AAc) network. The prepared comb-type grafted P(NIPAM-co-AAc) hydrogels exhibited a more rapid deswelling rate than normal-type P(NIPAM-co-AAc) hydrogels in ultrapure water in response to abrupt changes from 25 C to 60 degrees C. The same was true in buffer solution with a pH jump from 7.4 to 2.0 at 25 degrees C. Unexpectedly, the comb-type grafted P(NIPAM-co-AAc) hydrogels showed abnormal shrinkage behaviors in a buffer solution when the temperature increased from 25 degrees C to 60 degrees C with a pH value fixed at 7.4 or 2.0. In a buffer solution of pH 7.4, when the environmental temperature jumped from 25 degrees C to 60 degrees C, the grafted comb-type hydrogels shrank slower than the normal-type hydrogels, while at pH 2.0, the gels shrank faster than the normal-type gels in the beginning, which was followed by a slower shrinking. Interestingly, the much quicker shrinkage of the comb-type grafted P(NIPAM-co-AAc) hydrogels was observed because of the cooperative thermo-/pH-responses when the simultaneous temperature and pH stimuli met from pH 7.4/25 degrees C to pH 2.0/60 degrees C. The results of this study provide valuable information regarding the development of dual stimuli-sensitive hydrogels with fast responsiveness. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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