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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 120, Issue 31, Pages 7724-7730Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b03200
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- JSPS KAKENHI Grants [JP26288011, JP14J02533]
- Scientific Research on Innovative Areas Nano-Material Optical-Manipulation [JP16H06507]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26288011, 26410137] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The dynamic and static phase separation behavior in aqueous poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) solutions is highly sensitive to the tacticity of PNIPAM. We investigated the phase separation dynamics of aqueous solutions of PNIPAM with different tacticities (atactic and syndiotactic-rich types) and found that the phase separation dynamics of syndiotactic-rich PNIPAM was much different from that of atactic-type PNIPAM. First, phase separation in syndiotactic-rich PNIPAM was faster. Second, there was a critical point (C-cp) in the concentration dependence of the phase separation rate: the phase separation accelerated dramatically when the solution concentration was higher than 2.0 wt % (= C-cp). Third, syndiotactic-rich PNIPAM required a higher thermal energy for phase separation compared to atactic PNIPAM. Such behavior can be explained on the basis of the high hydrophobicity of syndiotactic-rich PNIPAM in a dehydrated state and a diffusion-controlled aggregation model. The present study shows that precise control of the stereoregularity will open new channels toward the design and development of stimuli-responsive-polymer-based smart materials.
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