Facile preparation of mouldable polyvinyl alcohol-borax hydrogels reinforced by well-dispersed cellulose nanoparticles: physical, viscoelastic and mechanical properties

By Jingquan Han, Tingzhou Lei, Qinglin Wu. Cellulose, 2013

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Mechanical Engineering, Molecular Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• Cross-linked nanocomposite hydrogels based on cellulose nanocrystals and PVA: Mechanical properties and creep recovery (2016, background): “straightforward; however, it is time- and energy-consuming, Alternatively, the use of chemical agents such as borax [4], epichlorohydrin [11] or glutaraldehyde [12] to connect the polymer chains has been found to be an efficient and feasible way to fabricate hydrogels with better properties.”
• Stable, self-healing hydrogels from nanofibrillated cellulose, poly(vinyl alcohol) and borax via reversible crosslinking (2014, unknown): “[43], who reported moduli val-”
• A Review of Natural Fiber Reinforced Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Based Composites: Application and Opportunity (2015, background): “Another environmentally friendly cross-linker is Borax (Na2B4O7·10H2O) which is recognized as a non-toxic food additive, which has been successfully used in PVA/nanocellulose composites [48,49].”