Hydrogels based on N-isopropylacrylamide and sodium acrylate as ionic comonomer were synthesized by free radical polymerization in water using N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide as crosslinker and ammonium persulfate as initiator. The glass transition of dried copolymers poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPA) and poly(sodium acrylate) (SA) gels and demixing/mixing transition of PNIPA-SA hydrogels swollen with increasing amounts of water were studied using conventional differential scanning calorimetry. In the crosslinked polymers, the glass transition linearly increases, and the transition range becomes broader, with increasing crosslinker content. Increasing content of ionic comonomer also produces an increase of glass transition temperature, which moves to higher temperatures with higher sodium acrylate fraction. The influence of chemical structure of PNIPA-SA hydrogels on the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of PNIPA-SA/water mixtures during heating and cooling was quantified as function of the content of the crosslinker and the ionic comonomer, as well as water content of the hydrogel in the range from 95 to 70 wt%. At parity of water content, the LCST occurs at higher temperatures for gels containing higher amounts of sodium acrylate. Similarly, the introduction of N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide causes an increase of the LCST, which grows with increasing of crosslinking degree of the hydrogel.
Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPA), as a smart polymer, can be applied for drug delivery systems. This amorphous polymer can be exposed on a structural recovery process during the storage and transport of medicaments. For the physical aging times up to one year, the structural recovery for PNIPA was studied by advanced thermal analysis. The structural recovery process occurred during the storage of amorphous PNIPA below glass transition and could be monitored by the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The enthalpy relaxation (recovery) was observed as overshoot in change heat capacity at the glass transition region in the DSC during heating scan. The physical aging of PNIPA was studied isothermally at 400.15 K and also in the non-isothermal conditions. For the first time, the structural recovery process was analyzed in reference to absolute heat capacity and integral enthalpy in frame of their equilibrium solid and liquid PNIPA.
In the reactions of N,N 0 -bis(2-hydroxyethyl)oxamide (BHEOD) with an excess of ethylene carbonate (EC) and N,N 0 -bis(2-hydroxypropyl)oxamide (BHPOD) with an excess of propylene carbonate (PC), the hydroxyethoxy and hydroxypropoxy derivatives of oxamide (OD) were obtained, respectively, distinguished by an increased thermal stability. First time, these derivatives were used as polyol components to obtain foamed polyurethane plastics with the contribution of 4,4 0 -diisocyanate diphenylmethane (MDI). The rigid polyurethane foams of a slight water uptake, good stability of dimensions, enhanced thermal stability, and compression strength were obtained.
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