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The appearance of spherical particles resulting from heating beyond the phase separation temperature in dilute solutions of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) has been observed by dynamic light scattering (DLS). They have a relatively narrow size distribution. The size of particles increases with...
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The appearance of spherical particles resulting from phase separation in dilute solutions of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) has been observed by dynamic light scattering (DLS). The particles have a relatively narrow size distribution. The size of particles increases with increasing concentration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010587128
Here we extend the Gaussian self-consistent method that has been successfully applied to the single polymer collapse … thermodynamic properties as well as of the kinetic transformations. We discuss various aspects of the aggregation and collapse …
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after a quench to the poor solvent region. Each chain may collapse individually as well as aggregate with others, and the … rather long compared to the collapse time of an isolated chain even for large quenches considered here. Our findings agree …
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