Speaker
Chia-Hsin Ko
(Technische Universität München)
Description
Compared to poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) PNIPAM, poly(N-isopropylmethacrylamide) PNIPMAM shows different behavior, though it has a similar chemical structure, only with additional methyl groups on the backbone, e.g. a higher transition temperature (43 °C instead of 32 °C). We studied the temperature-dependent phase behavior of PNIPMAM in D2O using small-angle neutron scattering. Different from PNIPAM, inhomogeneities and physical crosslinks appear in the one-phase state due to the methyl groups.
Primary authors
Chia-Hsin Ko
(Technische Universität München)
Kora-Lee Claude
(Technische Universität München)
Dirk Schanzenbach
(Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam)
Bart-Jan Niebuur
(TU München, Physik weicher Materie)
Florian Jung
(Technische Universität München)
Jia-Jhen Kang
(Technical University of Munich)
Henrich Frielinghaus
(JCNS)
Lester Barnsley
(Jülich Centre for Neutron Science)
Vitaliy Pipich
Baohu Wu
(JCNS-MLZ, FZ Juelich)
Alfons Schulte
(University of Central Florida)
Peter Müller-Buschbaum
(TU München, Physik-Department, LS Funktionelle Materialien)
André Laschewsky
(Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam)
Christine Papadakis
(Technische Universität München, Physik-Department, Fachgebiet Physik weicher Materie)
