Most conventionally prepared hydrogels - materials that are 80 to 90 percent water held in a polymer network - easily break apart like a gelatin.

On a larger scale, however, the water can't flow, because the polymer network resists movement.

His research into the energy dissipation properties of human soft tissue disclosed a structure very similar to an interpenetrating polymer network.

Retrogradation can expel water from the polymer network.

Most benzil is used in the free-radical curing of polymer networks.

Together, the various non-cross-linking substances associated with the polymer network constitute the mobile phases.

He also developed the theory of polymer networks or gels.

For example, in a polymer network, the tracer may be trapped.

Thus, at the critical point, the polymer network offers no resistance at all to any form of deformation.

Statistical theories try to determine the fraction of the total possible bonds that need to be made before an infinite polymer network can appear.