swellability

English

Etymology

swell +‎ -ability

Noun

swellability (countable and uncountable, plural swellabilities)

1. Quality or degree of being swellable.
   • 2015 August 25, “Experimental Investigation of Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Silica Nanoparticle-Reinforced Poly(acrylamide) Nanocomposite Hydrogels”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     We also observed significantly lower swellability for hydrogel nanocomposites relative to neat hydrogels, consistent with previous work suggesting that nanoparticles can mediate pseudo crosslinking within polymer networks.