Cononsolvency of thermoresponsive polymers: where we are now and where we are going

S Bharadwaj, BJ Niebuur, K Nothdurft, W Richtering… - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Cononsolvency is an intriguing phenomenon where a polymer collapses in a mixture of
good solvents. This cosolvent-induced modulation of the polymer solubility has been …

Thermoresponsive Polymers under Pressure with a Focus on Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM)

CM Papadakis, BJ Niebuur, A Schulte - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Pressure is a key variable in the phase behavior of responsive polymers, both for
applications and from a fundamental point of view. In this feature article, we review recent …

Solvent Dynamics in Solutions of PNIPAM in Water/Methanol Mixtures A Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering Study

K Kyriakos, M Philipp, L Silvi, W Lohstroh… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The solvent dynamics of concentrated solutions of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM, 25
wt%) in water/methanol mixtures (85: 15 v/v) are measured with the aim of shedding light …

Quantifying the interactions in the aggregation of thermoresponsive polymers: the effect of cononsolvency

K Kyriakos, M Philipp, CH Lin… - Macromolecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The aggregation kinetics of thermoresponsive core–shell micelles with a poly (N‐isopropyl
acrylamide) shell in pure water or in mixtures of water with the cosolvents methanol or …

Balancing segregation and complexation in amphiphilic copolymers by architecture and confinement

P Hebbeker, AA Steinschulte, S Schneider… - Langmuir, 2017 - ACS Publications
Segregation is a well-known principle for micellization, as solvophobic components try to
minimize interactions with other entities (such as solvent) by self-assembly. An opposite …

Polyacrylamide “revisited”: UCST-type reversible thermoresponsive properties in aqueous alcoholic solutions

A Asadujjaman, TE de Oliveira, D Mukherji, A Bertin - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Combining experiments and all-atom molecular dynamics simulations, we study the
conformational behavior of polyacrylamide (PAM) in aqueous alcohol mixtures over a wide …

Testing of the effect of parameters on the cononsolvency of random copolymer gels of N-isopropylacrylamide and N-ethylacrylamide in methanol-water mixed solvents …

CS Biswas, Q Wang, B Du, FJ Stadler - Polymer Testing, 2017 - Elsevier
Random copolymer gels of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM) and N-ethylacrylamide (NEAM)
were synthesized in using different monomer compositions in 1: 1 methanol-water mixtures …

Exothermic nonreversing process in the phase transition of poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide) studied with stochastic temperature‐modulated DSC

J Zhao, H Wang - Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Exothermic nonreversing process is predicted to present in the phase transition of poly (N‐
isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM). By employing TOPEM‐DSC, exothermic nonreversing heat …

Modeling of thermosensitive stereoregular polymers within the coarse-grained force field: Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) as a benchmark case

AD Muratov, AA Markina, DV Pergushov… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this article, we introduce the Martini model of a widely used thermoresponsive polymer,
poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPA). Importantly, our model takes into account polymer's …

Dinámica molecular de p-NIPAM en mezclas agua-alcohol y agua-acetona

HA Pérez Ramírez - 2018 - zaloamati.azc.uam.mx
En este trabajo se combina el uso de técnicas experimentales y de simulación
computacional para estudiar el efecto de co-insolubilidad que el p-NIPAM muestra al ser …