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SUBMITTER: Leon-Cecilla A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9858607 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Leon-Cecilla Alberto A Vazquez-Perez Francisco J FJ Gila-Vilchez Cristina C Álvarez de Cienfuegos Luis L Lopez-Lopez Modesto T MT
Gels (Basel, Switzerland) 20230103 1
We investigated the effect of partial dehydration under mechanical stress in the properties of alginate hydrogels. For this aim, we characterized the mechanical properties of the hydrogels under tensile and shear stress, as well as their swelling behavior, macroscopic appearance, and microscopic structure. We found that the processes of dehydration under a mechanical stress were irreversible with fully rehydration being impossible. What is more, these processes gave rise to an enhancement of the ...[more]