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In the past few years several studies have been performed on the swelling and elastic behavior of polymer gels1–8. This field of polymer physics has recently come of interest because of newly developed theoretical approaches and significant improvements in the experimental techniques used for investigating swollen network systems.

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Horkay, F., Geissler, E., Hecht, AM. (1992). Osmotic Properties of Swollen Polymer Networks. In: Aharoni, S.M. (eds) Synthesis, Characterization, and Theory of Polymeric Networks and Gels. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3016-9_22

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