Polyhydroxyurethane hydrogels: synthesis and characterizations

[en] Hydrogels based on polyurethane (PU) are promising (bio-) materials because of their bio- compatibility, biodegradation and excellent mechanical properties. In this publication, polyurethane hydrogels were produced for the first time by a non-isocyanate route by solvent-free step-growth copolymerization between a CO2-sourced hydrophilic polyethy- lene glycol bi-cyclic carbonate with diamines in the presence of a cross-linker. Kinetic of poly(hydroxyurethane) (PHU) synthesis was monitored by ATR-IR and the chemical cross-linking was confirmed by rheology and gel contents measurements. Hydrogels were obtained by immersion of PHUs in water and the influence of the diamine/cross-linker ratio and the nature of diamine on the water swelling and compression properties (compression modulus, strain and stress at break) of PHU hydrogels was evaluated. Additionally, the compression properties of the hydrogels were improved by the addition of Montmorillonite as nanofiller in the PHU formulation. This work opens new application fields for CO2-sourced PHUs.

Research Center/Unit :

Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM)
CESAM - Complex and Entangled Systems from Atoms to Materials - ULiège

Disciplines :

Chemistry
Materials science & engineering

Author, co-author :

Gennen, Sandro ; University of Liège - ULiège > Complex and Entangled Systems from Atoms to Materials (CESAM), Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM)

Grignard, Bruno ; University of Liège - ULiège > Complex and Entangled Systems from Atoms to Materials (CESAM), Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM)

Thomassin, Jean-Michel ; University of Liège - ULiège > Complex and Entangled Systems from Atoms to Materials (CESAM), Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM)

Gilbert, Bernard ; University of Liège (ULg), Department of Chemistry, Analytic Chemistry and Electrochemistry

Vertruyen, Bénédicte ; University of Liège (ULg), Complex and Entangled Systems from Atoms to Materials (CESAM), Group of Research in Energy and ENvironment from MATerials (GREENMAT) - Laboratory of Structural Inorganic Chemistry (LCIS)

Jérôme, Christine ; University of Liège - ULiège > Complex and Entangled Systems from Atoms to Materials (CESAM), Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM)

Detrembleur, Christophe ; University of Liège - ULiège > Complex and Entangled Systems from Atoms to Materials (CESAM), Center for Education and Research on Macromolecules (CERM)

Language :

English

Title :

Polyhydroxyurethane hydrogels: synthesis and characterizations

Publication date :

November 2016

Journal title :

European Polymer Journal

ISSN :

0014-3057

eISSN :

1873-1945

Publisher :

Elsevier Science

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Pages :

849-862

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Funders :

F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique
BELSPO - SPP Politique scientifique - Service Public Fédéral de Programmation Politique scientifique
The Walloon Region in the frame of the Flycoat and CO2Green projects
FRIA - Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture

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