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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 4.

Equilibrium swelling of crosslinked PEG-tethered PMAA microparticles (PEG-1000)

0.1 N HCl NaHCO3 Buffer
MAA:EG Weight
swelling ratio
(q)		 Mesh Size
(ξ, Å)		 Weight
swelling ratio
(q)		 Mesh Size
(ξ, Å)
83:17 6.1 ± 0.2 61 41.6 ± 0.9 300
69:31 5.8 ± 0.3 54 42.0 ± 0.5 290
50:50 5.3 ± 0.4 45 43.4 ± 1.2 270