Phase separation in semidilute aqueous poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) solutions

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 8791-8798

  Meier Koll, Andreas ^a   Pipich, Vitaliy ^b   Busch, Peter ^b   Papadakis, Christine M ^a   Müller Buschbaum, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUND WATERS; CORRELATION LENGTHS; CRITICAL EXPONENT; H-D EXCHANGE; ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE; KINETIC EFFECT; N-ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDES; PHASE SEPARATION MECHANISM; SANS MEASUREMENT; SEMIDILUTE; SMALL-ANGLE NEUTRON SCATTERING; SPECIFIC SURFACE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE JUMP; TIME-DEPENDENT;

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; HYDROGEN BONDS; MEAN FIELD THEORY; NEUTRON SCATTERING;

PHASE SEPARATION;

ACRYLAMIDE DERIVATIVE; POLY(N ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE); POLY(N-ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE); POLYMER; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; KINETICS; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; PHASE TRANSITION; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ACRYLAMIDES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; HYDROGEN BONDING; KINETICS; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMERS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 84862158839     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la3015332     Document Type: Article

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