Title
Synthesis and characterization of pH- and thermo-responsive hydrogels based on poly(2-cyclopropyl-2-oxazoline) macromonomer, sodium acrylate, and acrylamide
Date Issued
01 October 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Springer
Abstract
New graft copolymer hydrogels based on sodium acrylate, acrylamide, and styryl-terminated poly(2-cyclopropyl-2-oxazoline) macromonomer (MM) were synthetized by free radical polymerization using N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide as cross-linker. The polymerization was carried out in water at 5 °C and was initiated by sodium peroxodisulfate/N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylenediamine. The MM and the hydrogels were characterized by NMR and FTIR spectroscopy. In the hydrogels, the sodium acrylate provided the sensitivity to changes in pH value while the MM provided sensitivity to temperature. In dependence of their composition, the bi-sensitive hydrogels showed conformational transitions with variation of temperature or pH value. This property was shown macroscopically as a hydrogel volume contraction or expansion as it was determined by swelling experiments in water at different pH values and temperatures. Due to phase separation within the hydrogels facilitated by the graft copolymer network structure, both sensitivities could be addressed individually by both triggers and defined swelling states could be addressed over a wide range by adjusting both temperature and pH.
Start page
5553
End page
5565
Volume
77
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química analítica
Ingeniería química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85075650904
Source
Polymer Bulletin
ISSN of the container
01700839
Sponsor(s)
The authors thank Dr. M. Malanin (IPF Dresden) for the ATR-FTIR measurements on the hydrogels. J. C. R. and C. S. gratefully acknowledge the Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD), the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), and the National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation of Peru (CONCYTEC) for financial support.
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