The Importance of the Mixing Energy in Ionized Superabsorbent Polymer Swelling Models

The Flory−Rehner theoretical description of the free energy in a hydrogel swelling model can be broken into two swelling components: the mixing energy and the ionic energy. Conventionally for ionized gels, the ionic energy is characterized as the main contributor to swelling and, therefore...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Eanna Fennell, Juliane Kamphus, Jacques M. Huyghe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-03-01
Series:Polymers
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/12/3/609