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Salt- and pH-resisting collagen-based highly porous hydrogel
, Article Polymer Journal ; Volume 40, Issue 2 , 2008 , Pages 94-103 ; 00323896 (ISSN) ; Kurdtabar, M ; Ghasemzadeh, H ; Sharif University of Technology
2008
Abstract
A novel approach was developed to prepare a highly porous hydrogel with superior salt- and pH-resisting properties. According to this method, synthetic comonomers, i.e. acrylic acid (AA) and 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid (AMPS), were polymerized and crosslinked in the presence of hydrolyzed collagen as a natural backbone. The characterizations of hydrogels were investigated by swelling experiment, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, acid-base titration and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Morphology of the samples was examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Experimental results indicate that the hydrogel has an absorbency of 360 and 73-82 g/g for distilled...