Stimuli-Responsive Smart Hydrogels (SRSH) are extensively used in biotechnology and biomedicine amongst many other fields1. SRSH can be obtained conventionally through a batch reactor process resulting in irregular shaped particles, whereas emulsion, inverse-suspension, precipitation polymerizations, etc., lead mostly to spherical shaped particles. Recently micro-reactors have been introduced as an alternative ...
Different classes of stimuli-responsive smart hydrogels (SRSH) were synthesized in order to assess the usefulness of molecular imprinting and generation of interpenetrating polymer networks to obtain advanced materials with tailored properties/performance. Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain-Transfer (RAFT) polymerisation was exploited as an additional tool to increase the control on the formation process o...
The feasibility of making polymer crosslinked materials with applications in improving energy efficiency is here demonstrated. The encapsulation of phase change materials (PCM), for thermal energy storage/release, and sulphur inverse-vulcanization (producing materials with useful electrochemical properties) are here used as case studies. Effective thermal properties of the produced encapsulated PCM materials we...
The synthesis and characterization of two different classes of polymer crosslinked materials, useful for energy storage and improving energy efficiency, is here studied. Products resulting from the encapsulation of phase change materials (PCM), which can be used for thermal energy storage/release, are considered as first case study. For this purpose, different kinds of PCM can be considered in the encapsulation...
This research is devoted to the development of tools aiding the production of smart hydrogels with tailored molecular architecture and properties. Molecular imprinting, RAFT polymerization and operation in continuous flow microreactor are individually considered and also simultaneously combined in order to try the synthesis of materials with improved performance.
The aim of this paper was to: (i) describe the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games swimmer’s ages and; (ii) compare ages according to swimmer’s gender. It was analyzed 1101 inscriptions (588 men and 513 women) for all swimming events held at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: 50 meters freestyle (L50), 100 meters freestyle (L100), 200 meters freestyle (L200), 400 meters freestyle (L400), 800 meters freestyle (L800, only wo...
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Temperature/pH stimuli-responsive hydrogel particles were synthesized using inverse-suspension polymerization in batch stirred reactor. Different water soluble comonomers were present in the initial mixture (namely N-isopropylacrylamide and acrylic acid) as well as crosslinkers with different functionalities (bi-, tri- and tetrafunctional) so that their effect on the network crosslinking density could be seen. ...
Experimental and theoretical studies concerning the RAFT copolymerization of styrene (S) and commercial divinylbenzene (DVB) were performed in order to assess the use of controlled radical polymerization (CRP) for the production of nonconventional polymer networks. Aqueous suspension polymerizations were carried out at a 1 L scale in a stirred batch reactor and changes of a few operation parameters were tried i...
Three modeling approaches for the NMRP of slyrene-divinylbenzene were used for describing experiments performed at different initial conditions: a rigorous approach (model A) based on balance of species and method of characteristics in terms of generating functions and two simplified approaches based upon mass and moment balances, numerical fractionation and pseudo-kinetic method (models B and C). Balances of p...
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