Equilibrium swelling and kinetics of pH-responsive hydrogels: models, experiments, and simulations

By S. De, N. Aluru, B. Johnson, W. Crone, David J. Beebe, Jeffrey S. Moore. 2002

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION OF HYDROGEL SWELLING: A REVIEW (2010, methodology): “synthesized homogeneous copolymers of HEMA (hydroxy-ethyl-methacrylate) and acrylic acid with 1% of a diacrylate cross-linker [70].”
• Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications: Their Characteristics and the Mechanisms behind Them (2017, methodology): “One is the thermodynmical force of mixing favors e ing, while the other is the stored f rc in the stretched polymer chains hi dering sw lling [30].”
• Superabsorbent polymers in agriculture and other applications: a review (2019, background): “dimensional cross-linked structure, the polymer chains are linked to each other through cross-linking.([2,3]) They are water-absorbing polymers, they can be natural or synthetic.”
• A hydrogel-actuated environmentally sensitive microvalve for active flow control (2003, background): “Third, the gel’s volume must change in response to the chemomechanical stresses, which develop according to the new charge environment and transport of ions in and out of the gel, sometimes with the assistance of body buffers [17-20].”
• A chemo-electro-mechanical mathematical model for simulation of pH sensitive hydrogels (2004, methodology): “The present work is aimed at improving the kinetic model developed earlier (De et al., 2002).”
• pH ‐sensitive polymers: Classification and some fine potential applications (2021, background): “Chains bearing acidic groups deprotonate at high pH, whereas the basic groups protonate at low pH, 69 leading to pH-induced swelling/deswelling.”
• Ionic polymer–metal composites: III. Modeling and simulation as biomimetic sensors, actuators, transducers, and artificial muscles (2004, background): “Recent studies by Aluru and co-workers on ionic polymer ionic polymeric gels (De et al 2002) are also of importance to the present review paper.”
• Microfluidics: Fluid physics at the nanoliter scale (2005, background): “The dynamics of the swelling process depend on the collective diffusion of solution into the gel, and thus vary with the square of gel dimension Matsuo and Tanaka, 1988; De et al., 2002 .”
• Advances in Mechanics of Soft Materials: A Review of Large Deformation Behavior of Hydrogels (2015, methodology): “…meshless random differential quadrature (RDQ) method [Li and Mulay, 2011], and finite cloud method on pH-sensitive gels [De and Aluru, 2004; De et al., 2002] and Hermite–Cloud method on electricsensitive hydrogels [Chen et al., 2005; Lam et al., 2006; Li, 2009; Li et al., 2003, 2006,…”