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polymer gel
Gel in which the network component is a polymer network.
Notes:
  1. A gel is an elastic colloid or polymer network that is expanded throughout its whole volume by a fluid.
  2. The polymer network can be a network formed by covalent bonds or by physical aggregation with region of local order acting as network junctions.
  3. An example of covalent polymer gels is net-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) swollen in water, which shows volume phase transition during heating.
  4. Examples of physically aggregated polymer gels are poly(vinyl alcohol) gel and agarose gel, which show reversible sol-gel transitions.
  5. See also: network.
Source:
PAC, 2004, 76, 889 (Definitions of terms relating to reactions of polymers and to functional polymeric materials (IUPAC Recommendations 2003)) on page 902
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A.Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic, J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins. ISBN 0-9678550-9-8. doi:10.1351/goldbook.
Last update: 2008-10-07; version: 2.0.2.
DOI of this term: doi:10.1351/goldbook.PT07187.
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