Design and Synthesis of Quick Setting Nonswelling Hydrogels via Brush Polymers.

ABSTRACT: Brush polymers have emerged as components of novel materials that show huge potential in multiple disciplines and applications, including self-assembling photonic crystals, drug delivery vectors, biomimetic lubricants, and ultrasoft elastomers. However, an understanding of how this unique topology can affect the properties of highly solvated materials like hydrogels remain under investigated. Here, it is investigated how the high functionality and large overall size of brush polymers enhances the gelation kinetics of low polymer weight percent gels, enabling 100-fold faster gelation rates and 15-fold higher stiffness values than gels crosslinked by traditional star polymers of the same composition and polymer chain length. This work demonstrates that brush polymer topology provides a usefu

SUBMITTER: Jia F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8373163 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature