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MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 31, Issue 8, Pages 724-728Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/marc.200900843
Keywords
graft copolymer; high-throughput screening; hofmeister salts; LCST; polyoxazoline
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- Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) [500]
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The influence of Hofmeister salts was investigated on the cloud point of three poly(2-oxazoline)s, namely poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) [PEtOx], poly(2-n-propy1-2-oxazoline) [PnPro-pOx], and poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline) [PiPropOx]. In addition, a comb polymer based on oligo-2-ethyl-2-oxazoline side chains and a methacrylate backbone (POEtOxMA) was included in this investigation. It was found that the ionic response of the poly(2-oxazoline)s strongly depends on their hydrophilicity. The comb polymer POEtOxMA revealed a strikingly similar response to the salts as linear PEtOx even though the cloud points of the polymers in water differ. This indicates that the architecture does not significantly influence the effect of the Hofmeister ions, even though there is a difference in the absolute
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