Phase behavior and solution structure of new UCST- and LCST-type polymers

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Copolymerization is a powerful strategy for the fabrication of new polymers with tailored functionality. For example, the copolymerization of acrylamide-based monomers with different substituents results in thermoresponsive polymers with either LCST- or UCST-type phase behavior. However not much is known about the solution structure of such polymers. We used RAFT polymerization to synthesize a variety of different copolymers based on acrylamide. Depending on the polymer composition and degree of polymerization we find significant differences in the phase behavior. Here we would like to study the form factor, the dynamic correlation length and the aggregation number of different UCST- and LCST-type polymers in the dilute and semidilute regime. We want to perform measurements at different temperatures covering the phase transition to analyze the phase behavior.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5291/ILL-DATA.9-11-1848
Metadata Access https://data.ill.fr/openaire/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=10.5291/ILL-DATA.9-11-1848
Provenance
Creator Lerch, Arne; Kafer, Florian; Karg, Matthias; Agarwal, Seema; Prevost, Sylvain
Publisher Institut Laue-Langevin
Publication Year 2018
Rights OpenAccess; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Size 2 GB
Version 1
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields