Aqueous solutions of a copolymer derivative of a polyacrylamide showed very interesting behavior, that in which the system evolves from one kind of double criticality (pressure−hypercritical point) to another (temperature−hypercritical point) as polymer molecular weight decreases. While in the neighboring region of the former point one expects a change from contraction to expansion upon mixing with increasing p...
Phase diagrams of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAM) as well as of hydrophilically-modified copolymers in aqueous solution were determined. A high-accuracy He-Ne Laser scattering technique was used for the detection of operational spinodal (sp) and cloud-point (cp) curves. Polymer concentration was varied from 0.5 to 20 wt.%. In the case of copoly(PNIPAAM/vinylsaccharide) several different chain lengths were...
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