A comparative study of urea-induced aggregation of collapsed poly(n -isopropylacrylamide) and poly(N, N -diethylacrylamide) chains in aqueous solutions

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 7481-7488

  Lu, Yijie ^a   Ye, Xiaodong ^a,b   Zhou, Kejin ^c,d   Shi, Wenjing ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; AGGREGATES; AMIDES; CROSSLINKING; HYDROGEN BONDS; METABOLISM; MOLECULES;

AGGREGATION RATE; CLOUD POINT TEMPERATURE; CLUSTER-CLUSTER AGGREGATION; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; N- ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE; POLY(N , N-DIETHYLACRYLAMIDE); POLY(N-ISOPROPYL ACRYLAMIDE) (PNIPAM); STATIC AND DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING;

UREA;

EID: 84879359727     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp403555b     Document Type: Article

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