Finding a good hydrogel composition for hydrogel based microvalves

H.J. van der Linden, W. Olthuis, P. Bergveld

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    Abstract

    In order to find a hydrogel that has good properties for use in microvalve actuators experiments have been conducted to find a hydrogel composition that has good swelling behavior and shows a discontinuous volume transition.

    During the experiments a number of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPA) and acrylamide (Am) hydrogels were synthesized with varying amounts of the comonomer acrylic acid (AA). The swelling behavior of these hydrogels was characterized by measuring the swelling in acetone/water mixtures with varying concentrations acetone.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationMicro Total Analysis Systems 2000
    Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the µTAS 2000 Symposium, held in Enschede, The Netherlands, 14–18 May 2000
    EditorsAlbert van den Berg, Wouter Olthuis, Piet Bergveld
    Place of PublicationEnschede
    PublisherKluwer Academic Publishers
    Pages175-178
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Electronic)978-94-017-2264-3
    ISBN (Print)978-0-7923-6387-3, 978-90-481-5496-8
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 14 May 2000

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