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Publicly Available Published by De Gruyter August 31, 2013

Glutaraldehyde-crosslinked poly(glycidol-block-ethylene oxide-block-glycidol) networks with temperatureresponsive swelling behaviour

  • Darinka Christova , Sijka Ivanova , Barbara Trzebicka , Wojciech Walach , Rumiana Velichkova and Andrzej Dworak EMAIL logo
From the journal e-Polymers

Abstract

In order to obtain temperature-responsive hydrogel networks, poly- (glycidol-block-ethylene oxide-block-glycidol) copolymers were chemically crosslinked by using glutaraldehyde and tetraethoxysilane in a sol-gel reaction. The crystallinity of copolymer networks prepared has been estimated by differential scanning calorimetry. Thermo-responsive properties were evaluated by measuring the equilibrium swelling degree for a series of copolymer hydrogels as a function of temperature.

Published Online: 2013-8-31
Published in Print: 2003-12-1

© 2013 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.

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