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POLYMER SCIENCE SERIES A
Volume 53, Issue 11, Pages 1012-1018Publisher
MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1134/S0965545X11110058
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [11-03-00739]
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Viscometry and dynamic and static light scattering are employed to study the molecular properties of water-soluble poly(carboxybetaine), that is, poly(2-(diallyl(methyl) ammonium) acetate). It is shown that, in solutions with pH 1, the polymer behaves as a polyelectrolyte. In media with pH 6 and 13, an increase in the concentration of sodium chloride increases the intrinsic viscosity of the polymer and the hydrodynamic radius of its macromolecules, thereby indicating the antipolyelectrolyte effect typical of polymer zwitterions. In water and 0.1 M NaOH, the second virial coefficient of the polymer is close to zero, while exponent, which relates the sizes of macromolecules to their molecular masses, is 0.5. In 1 M NaCl, the second virial coefficient becomes positive, while exponent increases to 0.58. The Kuhn segment lengths of poly(carboxybetaine) molecules are 6.3 and 6.6 nm in water and 1 M NaCl, respectively. An increase in the hydrodynamic radius of macromolecules with the ionic strength of the solution is due to the shielding of attraction between zwitterions belonging to polybetaine monomer units located far apart along a macromolecular chain.
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