Unexpected temperature-dependent single chain mechanics of poly(N -isopropyl-acrylamide) in water

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5151-5157

  Cui, Shuxun ^a   Pang, Xiangchao ^a   Zhang, Shen ^b   Yu, You ^a   Ma, Hongwei ^b   Zhang, Xi ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL FORCE; FORCE CURVE; LOWER CRITICAL SOLUTION TEMPERATURE; MECHANICAL WORK; MOLECULAR DEVICE; SENSITIVE POLYMERS; SINGLE CHAINS; SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TURNING POINTS;

ELASTICITY;

AMIDES;

EID: 84863338241     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la300135w     Document Type: Article

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