Green Synthesis of Agar/Gelatin Based Superabsorbent (BGCP) Through Gamma Radiation Cross-Linking Polymerization for Castoff as Sustained Drug Delivery Device and in Soil Treatment for Improved Water Retention

In this paper, agar/gelatin and acrylic acid-co-vinyl acetate (monomer chains) based superabsorbent, fabricated using gamma radiations as an initiator and N-N′ dimethylene bisacrylamide as a crosslinker, has been investigated for its swelling behaviour (Max. Ps = 8010) in distilled water as a function of time, temperature and pH. The hydrogel has further been applied for sustained delivery of diethyl carbamazine citrate under three pH conditions...