水凝胶-水凝胶复合材料的热分析研究

在甲基丙烯酸羟乙酯单体中加入聚乙二醇400溶胀的交联N-乙烯基吡咯烷酮水凝胶,制备了水凝胶-水凝胶复合材料,采用DSC与TG研究了该复合材料中水的特异性。结果表明,分散相水凝胶与连续相水凝胶的吸水倍率不同,导致复合材料吸水溶胀时不同相结构之间互相制约,复合材料中非冻结水的含量较多,DSC谱图上非冻结水的熔融峰被自由水的熔融峰掩盖;水凝胶中不同存在状态的水的形成与水凝胶的溶胀行为密切相关,非冻结水与中间水的形成都需要足够的空间。     

互穿网络水凝胶角膜接触镜材料的合成及性能

通过高聚物分子设计的方法,运用互穿网络(IPN)技术,以吸水倍率为1.7的甲基丙烯酸β-羟乙酯(HEMA)水凝胶为基体材料,以吸水倍率为7~8的交联N-乙烯基吡咯烷酮(PVPP)颗粒为分散相,制备出了互穿程度不同的复合水凝胶角膜接触镜材料。利用SEM和TG分析仪对合成物的结构及热稳定性进行了表征。结果表明,m(PVPP颗粒)∶m(单体HEMA)=10∶90,以w(甘油或PEG400)=35%~45%作致孔剂,通过控制液体HEMA在PVPP颗粒中的渗透程度,可制得膨润率2%~5.3%、拉伸强度430~695 kPa、透光率>92%、含水质量分数45%左右的中等含水量的复合水凝胶角膜接触镜材料。DTG分析发现,在20~40℃,复合水凝胶的脱水速率随着互穿网络程度的提高而降低。     

水在凝胶中的存在状态及其对凝胶力学性能的影响

以偶氮二异丁腈为引发剂,通过化学引发聚合合成甲基丙烯酸β-羟乙酯（HEMA）/N-乙烯基吡咯烷酮（NVP）二元共聚物和HEMA /NVP /甲基丙烯酸甲酯（或甲基丙烯酸丁酯）三元共聚物水凝胶,通过示差扫描量热法（DSC）结合热重法（TG）研究了不同单体配比的共聚物水凝胶中水的状态,证明了凝胶中存在3种不同状态的水：非冻结结合水、可冻结结合水和可冻结自由水.结果发现可冻结水的含量主要由NVP含量所决定,NVP单元基本不能键合水,而非冻结水的含量主要受HEMA含量和疏水性单体甲基丙烯酸酯含量影响.疏水性单体的引入使材料的力学强度提高,对凝胶体系具有增塑作用的是非冻结水而不是可冻结的结合水和自由水.     

丙烯酰胺类共聚物水凝胶的合成及性能研究

用自由基聚合法合成了不同摩尔配比的HEMA／AM共聚物水凝胶材料。研究了单体组成、温度、pH值、离子强度等因素对凝胶溶胀性能的影响。结果表明：水凝胶的溶胀速度较快;水凝胶在pH值小于4及pH值大于9的酸、碱溶液中发生水解,导致水凝胶的饱和含水量大幅增加,而在弱酸性溶液中几乎没有变化;水凝胶的饱和含水量对离子强度的变化不够敏感;随着温度的升高水凝胶的饱和含水量略有减少,说明此类水凝胶对温度的敏感性也较弱。     

AM与HEMA共聚制备水凝胶接触镜材料及其溶胀性能

采用丙烯酰胺(AM)与甲基丙烯酸β-羟乙酯(HEMA)进行本体共聚制备水凝胶接触镜材料,研究了水凝胶的溶胀性能及其温度和pH值敏感性。结果表明,引发剂过氧化苯甲酰(BPO)用量为反应单体总质量的0.3%、反应温度80℃,产物溶胀之后为无色透明的玻璃状水凝胶;共聚物水凝胶具有较好的pH值敏感性,水凝胶在酸性溶液中溶胀,在碱性溶液中收缩:含有AM的水凝胶,其pH值敏感性较大:随AM的含量增大,共聚物水凝胶的溶胀速度和饱和含水量增大,随温度升高,水凝胶的饱和含水量下降,共聚物水凝胶中AM的含量对其温度敏感性无显著影响:SEM照片显示,AM与HEMA共聚物存在均匀的纤维状结构,并且共聚物中AM的含量越大,这种纤维状结构越大、越明显。     

亲水-疏水PVP-semi-IPN-PCL水凝胶的制备与溶胀性能

N-乙烯基吡咯烷酮（NVP）在聚己内酯（PCL）的乙酸乙酯溶液中进行自由基聚合,制备了亲水-疏水性聚乙烯吡咯烷酮（PVP）/聚己内酯（PCL）半互穿网络水凝胶（PVP-semi-IPN-PCL）。凝胶中PCL的熔融温度T_m无明显变化,而T_m吸热峰形状随PVP含量变化。凝胶平衡溶胀率（ESR）随PVP含量的升高而增大,结合水量的增大尤其显著。由于“笼蔽效应”,低浓度引发剂时,偶氮二异丁睛（AIBN）引发制备的凝胶ESR低于过氧化苯甲酰（BPO）引发剂。交联剂浓度较低时,以戊二醛交联形成凝胶的ESR较N,N-亚甲基双丙烯酰胺（NMBA）交联形成的凝胶大。浓度较高时,戊二醛交联凝胶ESR较NMBA低。PVP含量（质量）分别为20%、40%、60%、80%时,凝胶溶胀动力学Fick模型中的n值分别为0.854、0.471、0.466、0.253,说明在合适的PVP含量时,凝胶的溶胀动力学符合Fick模型。     

聚丙烯酸镁/丙烯酸钠双交联水凝胶的制备及性能研究

以丙烯酸镁(Mg A)和丙烯酸钠(SA)为单体、N,N'-亚甲基双丙烯酰胺(MBA)为共价交联剂,通过溶液聚合方法制备了系列聚丙烯酸镁/丙烯酸钠(PAMgA/x-PASA)双交联水凝胶,并测试分析了共聚水凝胶材料的结构、吸水特性和力学性能。结果表明,MBA作用下丙烯酸镁和丙烯酸钠形成了双交联结构的共聚水凝胶,显著提高了丙烯酸盐水凝胶的吸水溶胀比、保水性和重复吸水能力。当SA质量分数为20%时,水凝胶的吸水溶胀比达550%,较单一离子交联的聚丙烯酸镁提高近4倍; 12 h干燥后的保水率约60%;而多次干燥-吸水溶胀以后,水凝胶的吸水溶胀比仍高达300%。此外,丙烯酸钠和MBA的加入对水凝胶的拉伸强度影响不大,但显著提高了材料的断裂伸长率,可从395%提高到690%。     

温敏型水凝胶的制备及溶胀特性

采用N-异丙基丙烯酰胺(NIPA)与N-乙烯基-2-吡咯烷酮(NVP)为共聚单体,以N,N-亚甲基双丙烯酰胺(BIS)为交联剂,过硫酸钾(KPS)为引发剂,通过化学交联的方法在水溶液中制备出P(NIPA-co-NVP)共聚物水凝胶。分别探讨了单体配比、交联剂用量等实验条件对水凝胶的温敏特性和溶胀性能的影响。利用傅里叶红外(FT-IR)对共聚物水凝胶的结构进行了表征。通过实验可知:当交联剂BIS和引发剂KPS分别为单体用量的5%和0.8%,制备的水凝胶具有较高的转化率、较好的机械强度和共聚性质。共聚物水凝胶中NVP含量越高,溶胀率越大,升温时溶胀率下降程度越大,自然条件下脱水速率越快;BIS用量越大,溶胀率越小,保水率越高,需要更长时间达到溶胀平衡。     

NVP-HEMA-AM三元共聚物水凝胶对氯霉素的缓释作用

采用本体共聚法制备了丙烯酰胺(AM)与甲基丙烯酸-2羟-基乙酯(HEMA)以及N-乙烯基吡咯烷酮(NVP)共聚物水凝胶,研究了AM-HEMA-NVP共聚物水凝胶对广谱抗菌药物氯霉素的缓释作用。结果表明,随氯霉素溶液浓度增大、NaC l浓度降低、温度升高以及NVP或者AM组分的含量增大,AM-HE-MA-NVP三元共聚物水凝胶对氯霉素的吸收量增大;随AM-HEMA-NVP三元共聚物水凝胶中NVP或者AM组分含量的增大,氯霉素的释放速度明显增大;氯霉素从水凝胶中缓释的动力学可采用Fick扩散动力学描述,其释放过程受水凝胶溶胀过程以及氯霉素扩散过程控制。     

互穿网络水凝胶的制备及其性能

以丙烯酸(AA)、N-乙烯基吡咯烷酮(NVP)和N-异丙基丙烯酰胺为主要原料(NIPAM),以N,N′-亚甲基双丙烯酰胺(MBA)为交联剂,过硫酸钾为引发剂,采用分步法制备互穿网络水凝胶。研究了水凝胶的溶胀动力学,探究了在不同温度、p H和盐溶液浓度下水凝胶的溶胀率。结果表明,随着温度的上升,水凝胶的溶胀率呈递减的趋势。溶液的碱性越强,水凝胶吸水性越好,在p H大于8以后,吸水性能基本达到稳定。当水溶液浓度升高时,凝胶的溶胀率呈快速递减的趋势。     

Hydrogel–hydrogel composites: The interfacial structure and interaction between water and polymer chains

This work examines the interfacial structure and interaction between water and polymer chains in the hydrogel–hydrogel composites with the goal of establishing foundations for further investigation of drug diffusion from one hydrogel to another in the soft contact lens. This is based on the ability of the hydrogel–hydrogel composites to release ophthalmic drugs in a sustained manner. The hydrogel–hydrogel composites were synthesized by immersing the glycerol-swollen particles of crosslinked N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone (NVP) into the monomer of hydroxyethylmethacrylate (HEMA) containing initiator benzoylperoxide (BPO) that polymerizes to form a matrix in the presence of the first networks. The hydrogel–hydrogel composites were characterized by UV/Vis spectrophotometer, scanning electronic micrography (SEM), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The results showed that the samples of hydrogel–hydrogel composites of the particles of crosslinked NVP and poly-HEMA were transparent and glassy and suitable for soft contact lens. Three types of the interfacial structure, no interpenetrating interface, partly interpenetrating interface, and fully interpenetrating interface, of the hydrogel–hydrogel composites existed, and the type of the interfacial structure was determined by the degree to which the monomer of HEMA penetrated into the first networks before formation of the matrix. Different from poly-HEMA hydrogels, the peaks near 0°C on DSC curves of the hydrogel–hydrogel composites did not split while they were kept acute, and the amount of freezable-bound water was less. This shows that the water incorporated in the hydrogel–hydrogel composites does not strongly interact with polymer matrix, so the hydrogel–hydrogel composites cannot keep their shape during the phase transition of water. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci, 2008     

Characterization of hydrogels based on chitosan and copolymer of poly(dimethylsiloxane) and poly(vinyl alcohol)

Copolymers composed of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) were crosslinked with chitosan to prepare semi‐interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) hydrogels by an ultraviolet (UV) irradiation method for application as potential biomedical materials. PVA/PDMS copolymer and chitosan was cast to prepare hydrogel films, followed by a subsequent crosslinking with 2,2‐dimethoxy‐2‐phenylacetophenone as a nontoxic photoinitiator by UV irradiation. Various semi‐interpenetrating polymer networks (semi‐IPNs) were prepared from different weight ratios of chitosan and the copolymer of PVA/PDMS. Photocrosslinked hydrogels exhibited an equilibrium water content (EWC) in the range of 65–95%. Swelling behaviors of these hydrogels were studied by immersion of the gels in various buffer solutions. Particularly, the PCN13 as the highest chitosan weight ratio in semi‐IPN hydrogels showed the highest EWC in time‐dependent and pH‐dependent swelling. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 84: 2591–2596, 2002     

DSC studies on states of water in crosslinked poly(methyl methacrylate-co-n-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone) hydrogels

Mixtures of methyl methacrylate (MMA) with N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone (VP) of various composition in the presence of fixed concentration of ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EDMA) have been copolymerized to 100% conversion by γ-irradiation. The resultant solid xerogels were swollen in water to yield hydrogels of equilibrium water contents ranging from 15 to 76wt%. The state of water in the poly(MMA-co-VP) hydrogels has been studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and the percentages of free freezing, freezable bound and nonfreezing water were found to vary with the xerogel composition, i.e. the degree of hydration of the hydrogels. At low equilibrium swelling, most of the water exists as a non-freezing type, whereas at higher equilibrium swelling the majority of water exists as free freezing water. The maximum number of non-freezing water molecules per VP unit in the hydrogel is about 7.5.     

PVA水凝胶中水的状态研究

用环氧氯丙烷作交联剂,制备了聚乙烯醇（PVA）亲水水凝胶。并用示差扫描量热法（DSC）对不同含水量的此种亲水水凝胶进行了测试,获得了各种状态水进入水凝胶聚合物网络体系的先后顺序情况,并研究了PVA水凝胶中三种状态水的含量随水凝胶含水量的变化而变化的规律。     

室温交联PVA水凝胶的制备与性能研究

以环氧氯丙烷为交联剂,采用室温化学交联法制备了聚乙烯醇(PVA)水凝胶,研究了交联温度和交联时间对PVA溶胀性能和力学性能的影响,借助差示扫描量热法(DSC)和扫描电子显微镜(SEM)对PVA水凝胶进行分析表征。结果表明,当交联时间为3d且交联温度为50℃时PVA水凝胶的综合性能最佳。PVA的玻璃化转变温度为-54.50℃,PVA水凝胶中包含有自由水、束缚水和非冷冻水。     

Swelling behavior and cell viability of dehydrothermally crosslinked poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogel grafted with N‐vinyl pyrrolidone or acrylic acid using γ‐radiation

To improve equilibrium water content, dehydrothermally crosslinked poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) hydrogel was grafted with N‐vinyl pyrrolidone (NVP) or acrylic acid (AA) monomer using γ‐radiation. Swelling behavior of the grafted hydrogels was studied in phosphate‐buffered saline, and cell viability was evaluated using fibroblast cells from mouse connective tissue. Equilibrium water content of AA‐ and NVP‐grafted PVA hydrogel ranged between 40–60% and 60–80%, respectively, depending on radiation dose and monomer concentration. For maximum degree of swelling, the optimum monomer concentration and radiation dose were 20% by weight and 20 kGy, respectively. Fibroblast cells seeded on NVP‐grafted hydrogel had an extended oval morphology while those seeded on AA‐grafted PVA had a rounded spherical morphology. These results support the use of NVP for grafting PVA to increase swelling and improve cell viability. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 91: 2862–2868, 2004     

聚乙烯吡咯烷酮/壳聚糖共混水凝胶的制备与水的状态

以戊二醛作为交联剂,制备了聚乙烯吡咯烷酮（PVP）/壳聚糖（CHI）共混水凝胶,共混物的玻璃化转变温度T_g随CHI含量的升高而升高,SEM图谱观察到PVP/CHI凝胶表面呈现随CHI∶PVP比而变化的微相分离.凝胶溶胀率随着PVP含量升高、PVP分子量降低、CHI脱乙酰度增大而升高.DSC分析表明,非冷冻状态下,CHI∶PVP为1∶2时,游离水、可冻结结合水、非冻结结合水含量分别为42.7%、43.3 %、14.0 %;CHI∶PVP为1∶8时,凝胶中含非冻结结合水少,DSC曲线上只有一个明显的失水吸热峰,由游离水与可冻结结合水叠加而成.-123℃冷冻条件下凝胶的DSC升温曲线在0、38、53℃观察到一组明显的焓化峰,这是由于低温时冻结为结晶相的游离水、可冻结结合水,随温度升高吸热又转化为游离水、可冻结结合水所致.     

NVP-HEMA-KH570共聚水凝胶的合成及其溶胀性能研究

以N,N’-亚甲基双丙烯酰胺为交联剂,偶氮二异丁氰（AIBN）为引发剂,合成不溶于水的乙烯吡咯烷酮（NVP）／甲基丙烯酸β-羟乙酯（HEMA）／γ-（甲基丙烯酰氧）丙基三甲氧基硅烷（KH-570）共聚水凝胶,研究了PVP水凝胶的平衡溶胀度及脱水性能。结果表明,随着NVP在水凝胶中含量的增大,水凝胶的平衡溶胀度逐渐增大;环境温度升高,KH570、BIS的含量及浸泡溶液的离子浓度增大,水凝胶的平衡溶胀度逐渐减少;在相同的时间内,环境温度越高,水凝胶的脱水率也越大;在同一温度下,HE-MA含量越大,凝胶脱水的速度就越慢,而浸泡的溶液离子浓度越高,脱水率就越大。