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COLLOID AND POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 279, Issue 1, Pages 14-21Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s003960000381
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poly(N-isopropylacrylamide); urea; pyrene; fluorescence technique; conformation
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The effect of urea on the conformational behavior of poly(N-isopropylacryramide) (PNIPAM) in dilute aqueous solution has been investigated using fluorescence spectroscopy, fluorescence quenching and fluorescence anisotropy measurements via pyrene (Py) probe and acenaphthylene (ACE) label studies. It was demonstrated that urea promotes the partitioning of the hydrophobic probe, Py, towards the bulk aqueous phase at temperatures above the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of the polymer due to swelling of the compact coil conformation. However, the compact coil structure of the polymer at temperatures greater than its LCST is not completely destroyed, even for urea concentrations up to 3 M, at which the phase transition is hardly observed. As expected, urea has little effect on the conformational behavior of PNIPAM at temperatures below its LCST.
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