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Brush-like macromolecules (molecular brushes) have been extensively studied theoretically and experimentally for a number of decades. Chemical (covalent) cross-linking of brush-like polymers with subsequent swelling in a good solvent gives rise to the so called "hairy" gels with strands constituted by molecular brushes. The swelling ratios and osmotic moduli of such gels depend in a complex way on the grafting density and polymerization degree of the side chains decorating the network strands. The possibility to vary architectural parameters of molecular brushes (such as side chain length and grafting density) allows for . . .
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