Effect of LCST on the swelling of PAAm-NIPA copolymers: a fluorescence study

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2012

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Evingür, Gülşen Akin
Pekcan, Önder

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Springer

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Temperature sensitive copolymers were prepared by free radical crosslinking copolymerization in aqueous solution with different molar percentage of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPA) and acrylamide (AAm) monomers. NN'-methylenebis (acrylamide) (BIS) and ammonium persulfate (APS) were used as a crosslinker and an initiator respectively. The steady-state fluorescence (SSF) technique was used to determine the low critical phase transition temperature (LCST) for PAAm-NIPA copolymers. Swelling experiments were performed in water at various temperatures by real time monitoring of pyranine (Py) fluorescence intensity I which decreased as swelling proceeded. The Stern-Volmer equation is modified for low quenching efficiencies to interpret the behavior of pyranine intensity during the swelling of PAAm-NIPA copolymers. The Li-Tanaka equation was used to determine the swelling time constants tau (1) and the cooperative diffusion coefficients D (0) from fluorescence intensity weight and volume variations of the copolymers at various temperatures. It was observed that tau (1) first increased up to LCST and then decreased
naturally D (0) decreased up to LCST and then increased upon increasing temperature. It was understood that (LCST) increases as PAAm contents increase in the PAAm-NIPA copolymers.

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Swelling, Fluorescence, NIPA, Polyacrylamide, Copolymer, LCST

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68

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1

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223

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238