LÜ, Hexiang, ZHENG Yudong, MENG Haoye, XU Manqiong. COMPOSITION AND MICRO-MORPHOLOGY OF POROUS PVA HYDROGELS AND THEIR POISSON’S RATIO AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 2009,(11):1096-1100.
LÜ, Hexiang, ZHENG Yudong, MENG Haoye, XU Manqiong. COMPOSITION AND MICRO-MORPHOLOGY OF POROUS PVA HYDROGELS AND THEIR POISSON’S RATIO AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES[J]. Acta Polymerica Sinica, 2009,(11):1096-1100. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1105.2009.01096.
In order to obtain the auxetic hydrogels with negative Poisson’s ratio
porous poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) hydrogels with different contents of PVA and surfactant (alkylphenol ethoxylates:OP) were prepared by methods of surfactants template and repeatedly freezing-thawing process
according to the microstructure and deformation mechanism of auxetic materials.The Poisson’s ratio and mechanical properties of porous PVA hydrogels were measured and calculated by digital speckle technique.The microstructure and pore morphology of porous PVA hydrogels were observed by optical and electron microscopy.The interrelation and variation of their parameters
including composition
Poisson’s ratio
compression modulus
volume modulus of pure and porous PVA hydrogels were compared and investigated.With the increasing of PVA and OP contents
the pore’s size became larger
and the Poisson’s ratio of porous PVA hydrogels decreased.The values of Poisson’s ratio of porous PVA hydrogels were directly proportional to the ratio of the compression modulus and volume modulus of the hydrogels.