期刊
COLLOID AND POLYMER SCIENCE
卷 289, 期 11, 页码 1273-1281出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00396-011-2459-z
关键词
Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide); Colloidal crystal; Thermosensitive gel; Electrical double layer; Excluded volume effect
资金
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan [22685024]
- Japan Society for the promotion of Science
- REX Co. (Tokyo)
Morphology, phase diagram, and reflection spectroscopy of the colloidal crystals of thermosensitive gel spheres, poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) ((200-0.5), 318 and 116 nm in the hydrodynamic diameter at 25 degrees C and 45 degrees C, and 0.5% in the degree of cross-linking) were studied. Giant colloidal single crystals formed at very low gel concentrations. Densities of the gel spheres were 0.030 and 0.61 at 25 degrees C and 45 degrees C, respectively. Critical concentration of melting of gel spheres (0.8 wt.% without ion-exchange resins) decreased sharply to 0.015 wt.% at 25 degrees C as the gel suspension was deionized exhaustively with coexistence of the mixtures of cation and anion exchange resins. These results demonstrate that the colloidal crystallization takes place by the extended electrical double layers formed around the gel spheres in addition of the excluded volume effect of the gels. Extent of the contribution of the electrical double layers on the crystallization increased sharply when the degree of cross-linking increased, the gel spheres shrank, and/or the density of the gel spheres increased.
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