Journal
SOFT MATTER
Volume 11, Issue 15, Pages 3046-3055Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5sm00186b
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- National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [21274030, 51473038]
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Detailed phase transition processes of poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline) (PIPOZ)/poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) and PIPOZ/poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) (PVCL) mixtures in aqueous solution were investigated by DSC, temperature-variable H-1-NMR, optical microscopy and FT-IR spectroscopy measurements accompanied with two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2Dcos) and perturbation correlation moving window (PCMW) analytical methods. Through the comparison of these two systems, it is revealed that PVCL chains can interact with PIPOZ chains directly through the polymer-water-polymer cross-linking hydrogen bonds (C=O center dot center dot center dot D-O-D center dot center dot center dot O=C), which induce their transition process as one. However, in the PIPOZ/PNIPAM mixture, the phase transition of the given component (PNIPAM or PIPOZ) is indirectly affected by the presence of the second component, because the strong hydrogen bonds C=O center dot center dot center dot D-N in PNIPAM components forbid the direct connection with PIPOZ, which induces two phase transition processes separately with no liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS). Additionally, the formation of polymer-water-polymer hydrogen bonds (C=O center dot center dot center dot D-O-D center dot center dot center dot O=C) is highlighted as the key process in macroscopic LLPS.
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