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Quantifying the Transport Properties of Thin Polymer Gels via an Indentation-Based Technique

Published

Author(s)

Edwin P. Chan, Yuhang Hu, Peter M. Johnson, Zhigang Suo, Christopher M. Stafford

Abstract

Recently, an indentation approach has been demonstrated to quantify the poroelastic relaxations of hydrogels. Although the approach has been demonstrated to quantify the transport properties of thick hydrogel materials, its relevance for thin hydrogel layers and other hydrated polymer membranes have yet to be explored. In this work, we demonstrate POroelastic Spherical Indentation Testing (POSIT) in quantifying the transport properties for model thin swollen polymer network based on poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogel layers.
Proceedings Title
American Chemical Society Fall 2011 National Meeting & Exposition
Volume
242
Conference Dates
August 28-September 1, 2011
Conference Location
Denver, CO
Conference Title
241st ACS National Meeting, Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering: PMSE Preprints

Keywords

poroelasticity, hydrogels, diffusivity, pore size, indentation

Citation

Chan, E. , Hu, Y. , Johnson, P. , Suo, Z. and Stafford, C. (2011), Quantifying the Transport Properties of Thin Polymer Gels via an Indentation-Based Technique, American Chemical Society Fall 2011 National Meeting & Exposition , Denver, CO, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=908228 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created August 28, 2011, Updated February 19, 2017