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JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY
卷 50, 期 8, 页码 1515-1520出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pola.25913
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acrylic polymers; frontal polymerization; hydrogels; radical polymerization; stimuli-sensitive polymers
In this work, we report on the synthesis and characterization of homopolymers and copolymers of acrylic acid and 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate prepared by the use of the frontal polymerization (FP) technique. Tetraethyleneglycoldiacrylate was used as a crosslinker and benzoyl peroxide as an initiator. The maximum temperatures reached by the front were in the range between 214 degrees C and 296 degrees C. Besides, front velocities ranged between 3.9 and 10.8 cm/min, the latter being one of the highest values reported so far in the FP literature. Differential scanning calorimetry was used to estimate the conversion degree, which was always comprised between 90% and 96%, and to determine the glass transition temperatures, which were found to be dependent on the composition, with values ranging from 13 degrees C to 168 degrees C. Moreover, the obtained materials were allowed to swell in aqueous solutions at various pH. The samples exhibit a moderate increase of the swelling ratio percentage (SR%) at pH similar to 56, and a sudden and larger SR% increase at pH 1213 depending on the composition, thus indicating the obtainment of pH-responsive polymer hydrogels. (C) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2012
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