Structural characterization of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) gels and some of their copolymers with acrylamide through positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy

Polymer

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 3815-3819

  Sousa, Ricardo G ^a,b   Freitas, Roberto F S ^b   Magalhães, Welington F ^a  

^a Dept Chem Inst Exact Sci F   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Free volume; Positron annihilation; Thermoreversible gel

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; COPOLYMERS; GELS; POLYMERS; SPECTROSCOPY; SWELLING; THERMODYNAMICS;

POLYMER GEL; POLYMER-POLYMER INTERACTION; POSITRON ANNIHILATION LIFETIME SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032122685     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0032-3861(97)10341-X     Document Type: Article

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