Electron Beam Synthesis and Characterization of Acrylamide/Acrylic Acid Hydrogels Using Trimethylolpropane Trimethacrylate as Cross-Linker

Table 7

The variation of the number-average molar mass between cross-links (/g mol⁻¹), cross-link density (), and number of elastically effective chains () with the amount of TMPT and absorbed dose.

TMPT (mol/L)	Absorbed dose (kGy)
	2	3	4
	× 10^−3
2.95 × 10^−3	589 817	407 327	239 736
5.90 × 10^−3	1 187 695	584 394	296 537
	× 10^7
2.95 × 10^−3	1.218	1.764	2.997
5.90 × 10^−3	0.610	1.241	2.445
	× 10^14
2.95 × 10^−3	1.875	2.715	4.613
5.90 × 10^−3	0.931	1.892	3.729