A combined effect of freeze--thaw cycles and polymer concentration on the structure and mechanical properties of transparent PVA gels
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A combined effect of freeze--thaw cycles and polymer concentration on the structure and mechanical properties of transparent PVA gels
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Gupta, Siddhi
Goswami, Sudipta Sinha, Arvind |
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Biomaterials
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Transparent poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) hydrogel films, derived from aqueous solutions of varying concentration, were synthesized by the cyclic freeze–thaw method (0°–37 °C). This study demonstrates a variation in the transparency, degree of crystallinity, wettability, swelling and mechanical properties of the hydrogels as a function of the solution concentration and the number of freeze–thaw cycles for a given average molecular weight (95 000 Da). The study manifests a strong control of the number of freeze–thaw cycles on the structure–property correlations of the synthesized transparent PVA hydrogels, revealing the possibility of obtaining a window of structural and process parameters for the physically cross-linked hydrogels, making them suitable for cell–gel interactions.
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IOP Science
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2012
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Article
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application/pdf
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en
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http://eprints.nmlindia.org/4915/1/sidhi.pdf
Gupta, Siddhi and Goswami, Sudipta and Sinha, Arvind (2012) A combined effect of freeze--thaw cycles and polymer concentration on the structure and mechanical properties of transparent PVA gels. Biomedical Materials, 7 (1). 015006-1. |
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