Figure 5.
Total osmotic swelling pressure vs. polymer weight fraction C for thermally-cured zwitterionic GSHs at 25 °C in sugar-free 1X PBS buffer (pH 7.4, 0.16 M ionic strength), PBS buffer with 5.0 mM added glucose, and PBS buffer with 5.0 mM added fructose. The continuous curves are least squares fits to Equation (6) in the text (pregel polymer concentration 13 wt.%).