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EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL
Volume 47, Issue 10, Pages 1977-1984Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2011.07.015
Keywords
Stimuli-sensitive polymers; Conductive polymers; Interpenetrating networks (IPN); Drug release
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- CONICET
- FONCYT
- SECYT-UNRC
- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
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Thermosensitive hydrogels are made by radical homopolymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAM) or copolymerization of NIPAAM with 2-acrylamido-2-methyl-propane sulfonic acid (AMPS). The networks are semi-interpenetrated (s-IPN) with linear conducting polymers: polyaniline (PANI) or poly(N-methylaniline) (PNMANI). The semi-interpenetration affect slightly the phase transition temperature (measured by DSC) of the hydrogels, while water uptake capacity is strongly affected and depends on the relative hydrophobicity of the conducting polymer. Since polyanilines can be protonated in aqueous media, the swelling capacity of the s-IPN hydrogel depends strongly on pH unlike the unmodified hydrogel. The release of a model compound (tris(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium (II), Ru(bpy)(3)(+2)), driven by swelling or temperature, is also strongly affected both by the introduction of sulfonic groups, by copolymerization of NIPAAM with AMPS, semi-interpenetration and on the hydrophobicity of the conducting polymer. In that way, composite materials with quite different ion exchange behavior can be made by copolymerization and conducting polymer interpenetration. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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