Madhusudana Thippeswamy
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Mamatha Ganjeenahalli Puttagiddappa
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Demappa Thippaiah
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Nayak Devappa Satyanarayan
This work reports the synthesis of poly(acrylamide) hydrogel and its characterization. Hydrogel will
be synthesized by a chemical cross-linking method using sodium metabisulfite and potassium
persulphate as initiators with crosslinker methylenebisacrylamide. The synthesized hydrogels were
examined by FT-IR, SEM and TGA to determine chemical interactions in the polymer network.
Moreover, the swelling study explains that hydrogels swelling capacity and it depends on the
concentration of the crosslinking agent. The pH, temperature and salt solutions will impact on swelling
properties. In acid and base solutions, the swelling ratio order is as follows HCl < CH3COOH <
HClO4 < NaOH and the swelling ratio order in salt solutions is as follows: NaCl > CaCl2 > AlCl3.