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Porous hydrogels templated from soy-protein-stabilized high internal phase emulsions
- Source :
- Journal of Materials Science. 55:17284-17301
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Porous hydrogels with controlled morphology were successfully prepared from polymerizing soy-protein-isolate (SPI)-stabilized high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs). The ability of SPI to act as a surfactant in an oil-in-water HIPE containing acrylic acid or acrylamide monomer was investigated. The void and window sizes in the polyHIPEs were tailored by adjusting SPI and/or monomer concentration. Ultrasonication treatment was applied to vary the physical properties of the SPI. Although this treatment weakens the emulsifying efficiency of SPI, the HIPEs were stable enough to create polyHIPEs with larger pores and windows than polyHIPEs from untreated counterparts. The formation of polyHIPEs with interconnected, open-cell morphologies indicated that SPI is not a typical Pickering emulsifier. The performance of the hydrogels to capture heavy metal (e.g. lead (II)) ions was also explored. The highly interconnected polyHIPE structure with large voids revealed an enhanced absorption behavior compared with non-porous hydrogels.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
animal diseases
020502 materials
Mechanical Engineering
Sonication
technology, industry, and agriculture
02 engineering and technology
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
bacterial infections and mycoses
chemistry.chemical_compound
Monomer
0205 materials engineering
chemistry
Pulmonary surfactant
Polymerization
Chemical engineering
Mechanics of Materials
Acrylamide
Self-healing hydrogels
bacteria
General Materials Science
Porosity
Acrylic acid
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15734803 and 00222461
- Volume :
- 55
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Materials Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........c1da14bf96ae9ff091d629e15a7600ca