Hybrid, elastomeric hydrogels crosslinked by multifunctional block copolymer micelles
- 9 September 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Soft Matter
- Vol. 6 (21), 5293-5297
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c0sm00511h
Abstract
Amphiphilic block copolymers consisting of hydrophilic, poly(acrylic acid) randomly decorated with acrylate groups and hydrophobic, rubbery poly(n-butyl acrylate) self-assembled into well-defined micelles with an average diameter of ∼21 nm. Radical polymerization of acrylamide in the presence of the crosslinkable micelles gave rise to hybrid, elastomeric hydrogels whose mechanical properties can be readily tuned by varying the BCM concentration.Keywords
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