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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 10.
Published in final edited form as: Polymer (Guildf). 2007 Aug 10;48(17):5042–5048. doi: 10.1016/j.polymer.2007.06.035

Table 3.

Equilibrium swelling ratio of crosslinked PMAA microparticles

0.1 N HCl NaHCO3 Buffer

Theoretical
Crosslinking
Ratio (Xtheo)
Weight
swelling ratio
(q)
Mesh Size
(ξ, Å)
Weight
swelling ratio
(q)
Mesh Size
(ξ, Å)

0.0043 11.6 ± 0.6 270 40.5 ± 0.4 350
0.0079 11.9 ± 0.5 270 34.8 ± 0.8 340
0.0148 11.8 ± 0.6 270 26.6 ± 0.6 310
0.0309 11.2 ± 0.7 260 20.8 ± 1.1 290