Characterization at low Q values of a thermo and pH-sensitive hydrogel

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Among soft colloidal systems microgels, aqueous dispersions of nanometer or micrometer-seized hydrogel particles, have been the subject of intense research in the last years because of their versatility and high sensitivity to external stimuli. In particular the responsive hydrogel we are investigating is composed of Interpenetrated Polymer Network (IPN) of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM), a thermo-sensitive polymer, and polyacrylic acid (AAc), a pH-sensitive polymer, dispersed in water. The existence of a thermoreversible transition corresponding to the swollen-shrunken volume phase transition due to the presence of PNIPAM has been highlighted. Adding PAAc introduces an additional pH-sensitivity with respect to the temperature-sensitivity and leads to interesting differences in the transition process at acidic and neutral pH which need to be accurately investigated.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.61783522
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/61783522
Provenance
Creator Professor Fabio Bruni; Dr Valentina Nigro; Dr Barbara Ruzicka; Dr Roberta Angelini; Professor Maria Antonietta Ricci; Dr Nina-Juliane Steinke; Dr Laura Maugeri
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
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; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-06-18T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-06-21T07:00:00Z