Tailored Made Fabrication of Flexible Dendrimer-Hydrogel Composites with Physical Cross-linking and Study of Swelling Behaviour

Tailored Made Fabrication of Flexible Dendrimer-Hydrogel Composites with Physical Cross-linking and Study of Swelling Behaviour | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article Tailored Made Fabrication of Flexible Dendrimer-Hydrogel Composites with Physical Cross-linking and Study of Swelling Behaviour Nandkishor B. Shirsath, Tulsidas S. Savale, Milind C. Nagare, and 2 more This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7748571/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Under Review Version 1 posted 10 You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract A novel fabrication of dendrimer–hydrogel(DEN-H) of poly(AM-co-AA) composites are prepared by physical cross-linking. Report includes a flexible dendrimer-hydrogel composites are with excellent mechanical properties such as tensile strength and hardness. The embedded dendrimer (DEN) within copolymer interacted through hydrogen bonding which is responsible for softening of DEN-H composite. The precursor is investigated by FTIR, NMR, LCMS, and Thermo gravimetric analysis techniques. Prepared DEN-H composites formation is confirmed by FT-IR. Thermal behaviour is studied by Thermo gravimetric analysis. Swelling behaviour such as swelling ratio, equilibrium water content (EWC) and the effect of pH on swelling ratio of composites are studied. Hydrogel Dendrimer Composites Swelling behaviour Mechanical properties Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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