Collapsing and reswelling kinetics of thermoresponsive polymers on surfaces: a matter of confinement and constraints
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- Nicolas Willet, Sabine Gabriel, Christine Jerome, Filip Du Prez (UGent) and Anne-Sophie Duwez
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- We report on the collapsing and reswelling ability of grafted poly(methyl vinyl ether) chains of different molecular architectures. In order to study the influence of constraints and confinement of the chains, the polymer was grafted onto AFM tips, as a model of a curved nano-sized surface, and onto macroscopic silicon substrates for comparison purposes. AFM-based force spectroscopy experiments were performed to characterise at the nanoscale the temperature-dependent collapsing process and the reversibility to the swollen state on both substrates. The reversible character of the thermoresponsive transition and its kinetics were shown to greatly depend on the polymer architecture and the constraints encountered by the chains.
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- CHAINS, FORCES, WATER, BRUSHES, VESICLES, MEMBRANES, POLYMERIZATIONS, POLY(N-VINYLCAPROLACTAM), COPOLYMERS, SHELL-CORONA MICELLES
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-5737491
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- Willet, Nicolas, et al. “Collapsing and Reswelling Kinetics of Thermoresponsive Polymers on Surfaces: A Matter of Confinement and Constraints.” SOFT MATTER, vol. 10, no. 37, 2014, pp. 7256–61, doi:10.1039/c4sm01266f.
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- Willet, N., Gabriel, S., Jerome, C., Du Prez, F., & Duwez, A.-S. (2014). Collapsing and reswelling kinetics of thermoresponsive polymers on surfaces: a matter of confinement and constraints. SOFT MATTER, 10(37), 7256–7261. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4sm01266f
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- Willet, Nicolas, Sabine Gabriel, Christine Jerome, Filip Du Prez, and Anne-Sophie Duwez. 2014. “Collapsing and Reswelling Kinetics of Thermoresponsive Polymers on Surfaces: A Matter of Confinement and Constraints.” SOFT MATTER 10 (37): 7256–61. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4sm01266f.
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- Willet, Nicolas, Sabine Gabriel, Christine Jerome, Filip Du Prez, and Anne-Sophie Duwez. 2014. “Collapsing and Reswelling Kinetics of Thermoresponsive Polymers on Surfaces: A Matter of Confinement and Constraints.” SOFT MATTER 10 (37): 7256–7261. doi:10.1039/c4sm01266f.
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- 1.Willet N, Gabriel S, Jerome C, Du Prez F, Duwez A-S. Collapsing and reswelling kinetics of thermoresponsive polymers on surfaces: a matter of confinement and constraints. SOFT MATTER. 2014;10(37):7256–61.
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- [1]N. Willet, S. Gabriel, C. Jerome, F. Du Prez, and A.-S. Duwez, “Collapsing and reswelling kinetics of thermoresponsive polymers on surfaces: a matter of confinement and constraints,” SOFT MATTER, vol. 10, no. 37, pp. 7256–7261, 2014.
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