New strategies for the synthesis of amphiphilic networks
β Scribed by S. Rimmer; P. Tattersall; J.R. Ebdon; N. Fullwood
- Book ID
- 104425767
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 445 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1381-5148
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β¦ Synopsis
Amphiphilic and hydrogel polymers are useful biomedical materials. This paper presents some recent work on new syntheses of such materials. Amphiphilic gels have been prepared by the Diels-Alder reaction of poly(ethylene glycol)s that contain acetylene dicarboxylate groups along the main chain, with furan-ended oligomers. Hexyl methacrylate oligomers with methacrylate end groups have been prepared. These have been copolymerized with hydrophilic monomers to yield segmented amphiphilic gels.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
A series of amphiphilic oligomers have been synthesized in which the hydrophobic component was polyisobutylene, polystyrene, poly(methyl methacrylate) or dodecane, and the hydrophilic component was poly(vinyl alcohol) or poly(methacrylic acid). These syntheses exploited the chain extension chemistry