Three cooperative diffusion coefficients describing dynamics of polymer gels†
Takeshi Fujiyabu,Felicia Toni,Xiang Li,Ung-il Chung,Takamasa Sakai
Chemical Communications Pub Date : 04/03/2018 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/C8CC01357H
Abstract

Cooperative diffusion coefficient (Dcoop) describes the dynamics of a polymer network in a gel, and is estimated by three independent methods. We measured three Dcoop's of a model polymer network system (Tetra-PEG gels), and obtained the experimental evidence to fundamentally understand the dynamics of polymer gels.

Graphical abstract: Three cooperative diffusion coefficients describing dynamics of polymer gels