Hydrologel from template polymerization of methacrylic acid and n-vinylpyrollidone and polyethleneoxide

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This theses covers the preparation and the characterization of a rigid hydrogel from N-Vinyl pyrrolidone-methacrylic acid (VP-MAA) monomers and polyethyleneoxide (PEO) polymer. Hydrogels are hydrophillic natured three dimensional networks which can swell in the presence of water. The VP-MAA-PEO hydrogel was obtained by template polymerization which can be defined as a method of polymer synthesis in which specific interactions consists of the preparation of a polymer (daughter polymer) in the presence of a macromolecular compound (template polymer). The hydrogel of VP-MAA-PEO was synthesized by using azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN) as the initiator, tetrahydrofurane (THF) as the solvent and the temperature of the system was kept constant at 50ðC. Two kinds of VP-MAA-PEO hydrogels were prepared. The only difference between them were their solubilities in water. This difference is due to different crosslinking agent weight percentages of ethylene glycol dimethacrylic (EGDMA) to make the hydrogel water insoluble. The comparison of two hydrogels were carried by swelling behaviors at different pH values and different temperatures. Thermal stability of these two hydrogels were also examined by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), spectroscopic properties were compared by using FTIR spectrometer and morphological studies were analyzed by using scanning electron microscope (SEM).

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15087

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Y. Erdem, “Hydrologel from template polymerization of methacrylic acid and n-vinylpyrollidone and polyethleneoxide,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2005.