INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS AND POLYMERIC BIOMATERIALS, cilt.71, sa.15, ss.1148-1163, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
pH-/temperature-sensitive ampholytic poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm) hydrogels containing N-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]methacrylamide-itaconic acid (DMAPMAAm-IA) and DMAPMAAm-AMPS (2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid) comonomer pairs have been designed and then synthesized. The results showed that (i) disk diameters and transparencies in the range of pH 2-12 increased only with increasing content of AMPS in the ampholytic NIPAAm/DMAPMAAm/AMPS hydrogels containing 10.0 mol % of DMAPMAAm + AMPS mixtures; (ii) maximum compressive strengths of NIPAAm/IA (62.5 +/- 10.0 kPa) was higher than NIPAAm/AMPS (26.9 +/- 1.1 kPa) hydrogels in DDW at 37 degrees C. (iii) In case of DFNa release, the decreasing values of n (approximate to 0.30-0.50) indicated that ampholytic PNIPAAm hydrogels served as diffusion barrier.