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POLYMER
Volume 44, Issue 8, Pages 2255-2261Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-3861(03)00139-3
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poly(ethyl oxazoline); thermo-responsive hydrogels; segmented polymer networks
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First, the solution behavior of poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) (PEtOx) in water has been investigated. The dependence of the cloud points on the molecular weight and concentration indicates a typical Flory-Huggins (Type I) demixing behavior with a lower critical solution temperature (LCST). Secondly, the synthesis and properties of temperature-responsive hydrogels and segmented polymer networks, based on PEtOx bis-macromonomers, are reported. PEtOx hydrogels have been prepared by UV-induced radical polymerization of the corresponding alpha,omega-bisacrylates. The networks exhibited a continuous shrinkage with increasing temperature. Series of segmented networks with LCST-behavior have been obtained by free radical copolymerization of PEtOx bis-macromonomer with the comonomers 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA), 2-hydroxypropyl acrylate (HPA) or methyl methacrylate (MMA). The LCST-behavior of the materials is controlled by varying the philicity of the comonomer and the fraction of PEtOx in the networks. PHEMA-PEtOx and PHPA-PEtOx hydrogels exhibited a large and reversible swelling - deswelling process, whereas the volume changes in PMMA-PEtOx swollen networks were small and occur-red in a broad temperature interval. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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