Dynamic mechanical properties of polymer-fluid systems: characterization of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) and poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate-co-methyl methacrylate) hydrogels |
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Authors: | Steven R. Lustig James M. Caruthers Nikolaos A. Peppas |
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Affiliation: | School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA |
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Abstract: | The complex shear moduli of crosslinked poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) and poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate-co-methyl methacrylate) hydrogels were measured as a function of water content, temperature and frequency using dynamic mechanical spectroscopy. The effect of increasing water content on both the storage and loss moduli is to lower the temperatures at which mechanical transitions occur. There is a significant decrease in the storage moduli and increase in the loss moduli dispersions with increasing water content. These data could be well correlated by a multiple-mechanism, time-temperature superposition procedure. Between 2% and 28% water content in the copolymer sample, the relaxation spectra and shift function characterizing the glassy-rubbery state transition become independent of water content when properly referenced to the observed transition temperature. At lower temperatures where the β transition occurs, the mechanical viscoelastic spectra depend much more strongly on water content although the shift factors collapse to a single curve when referenced to the observed β transition temperature. |
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Keywords: | hydrogels dynamic mechanical shear properties PHEMA P(HEMA-co-MMA) plasticization time-temperature superposition viscoelasticity |
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