Effects of water content on PAM/PVA interpenetrating network hydrogel performance

Qinghua Wei, Yanen Wang, Mingming Yang, Weihong Chai, Yingfeng Zhang

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Abstract

To study interpenetrating network hydrogel system of PAM/PVA, molecular dynamics simulation is made to investigate molecular interaction inside a hydrogel system. Effects of water content on PAM/PVA composite hydrogel performance are studied. It is found that cohesive energy density and binding energy of hydrogel system increase with water content increasing. Meanwhile elastic coefficients, engineering modulus and ductility decreased with increasing of water content. In addition, with analysis of pair correlation function, we found that there are mainly hydrogen bonding interactions between H2O molecules and surrounding atoms or functional groups. Strengths of hydrogen bonds formed are Owater>OPVA>OPAM>NPAM, which consists with possibility (difficulty) of forming hydrogen bond.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)572-578
Number of pages7
JournalJisuan Wuli/Chinese Journal of Computational Physics
Volume32
Issue number5
StatePublished - 25 Sep 2015

Keywords

  • Cohesive energy density
  • Mechanical properties
  • Molecular dynamics
  • Polyacrylamide
  • Polyvinyl alcohol

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