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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
Volume 353, Issue 2-3, Pages 197-203Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2009.11.013
Keywords
Hydrogel; Polymethacrylate microemulsion; Dynamic light scattering; Rheology
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- National Science Foundation of China [50873029]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [20080440569]
- Shanghai Postdoctoral Scientific Program [09R21410900]
- Shanghai Scientific and Technological Innovation Project [08431902300]
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Evolving gel formation processes of colloidal hydrogels derived from high solid-content polymethacrylate microemulsions have been studied using theological and dynamic light scattering (DLS) techniques. The critical gel points, evaluated through oscillatory shear measurement and characterized by a single power-law exponent of G' and G '' on the frequency (the power-law exponent, n = 0.36-0.65) were influenced more by the volume fraction of polymers than by the gelling temperature. Further topological fractal analysis and theological studies suggested that reaction-limited cluster aggregation (RLCA) may dominate the aggregation behavior of polymer nanoparticles with the fractal dimension (d(f)) = 1.8-2.2. The DLS results showed a fast relaxation mode with a single exponential decay followed by a slow one with a stretched exponential decay, which indicated that the gradual incorporation of polymer nanoparticles or clusters into the gel network leads to the maturity of the homogenous hydrogel network. Comparative studies on a series of polymethacrylate hydrogel systems with different hydrophilicities demonstrated that a slight hydrophilicity favors gel formation. The gelation mechanism was discussed based on the in-situ aggregation of nanoparticles as well as in terms of the colloidal instability of high solid-content nanolatex. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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