RSC Advances   2016 年 6 卷 49 期

2016

Designing hydrogels with tunable mechanical properties and self-healing effects is crucial to a variety of applications, such as bioremediation carriers. Here, we synthesized a series of hydrophobic associated hydrogels (HA-gels) through micellar copolymerization in sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) aqueous solution. The hydrophobic monomer used is fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene acrylate (AEO-AC), which is significantly more eco-friendly than the traditional octylphenol polyoxyethylene acrylate (OP-AC) hydrophobic monomer. Interestingly, the mechanical properties of HA-gels can be tuned controllably by varying the ratio of AEO-AC-10-5 to AEO-AC-13-5 (AEO-AC-n-5: C