Structural and thermodynamic properties of EVOH (ethylene-vinyl alcohol) based microgels and their interaction with surfactants

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Poly(vinyl alcohol) is a biocompatible water-soluble polymer of great interest thanks to its large-scale applications for production of drug-delivery systems, sensors or membranes with selective permittivity. We are currently studying a new route, which uses the salting-out effect (adding NaCl), for the preparation of PVA-based physical microgels. With the aim of extending the field of application of these systems, microgels made up of two PVA-based copolymers (EVOH), formed by ethylene and vinyl alcohol at different molar ratios, were prepared. Due to the lack of information about EVOH-based microgels in the literature, a SANS study would be fundamental to understand how different parameters, such as salt and surfactant concentration, affect the aggregation process and the thermodynamical properties of such microgel solutions.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.73941914
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/73941914
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Creator Miss Augusta De Santis; Professor Luigi Paduano; Mr Marco Perfetti; Dr Sarah Rogers; Dr Giuseppe Vitiello; Dr Alessandra Luchini; Dr Irene Russo Krauss
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-03-09T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-03-10T09:00:00Z