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Inside Back Cover: Polymer Phase‐Transition Behavior Driven by a Charge‐Transfer Interaction (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 15/2013)
Author(s) -
Amemori Shogo,
Kokado Kenta,
Sada Kazuki
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201301704
Subject(s) - lower critical solution temperature , polymer , cover (algebra) , phase transition , materials science , charge (physics) , phase (matter) , chemical physics , thermodynamics , nanotechnology , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , composite material , quantum mechanics , mechanical engineering , engineering , copolymer
The lower critical solution temperature (LCST), is a well‐established phase‐transition behavior of polymer solutions, and it has attracted much interest with regard to stimuli‐sensitive materials. In their Communication on page 4174 ff. , K. Sada et al. demonstrate facile control of the LCST behavior of an organic polymer by manipulating the charge‐transfer (CT) interactions between the polymer and an effector. The appearance of CT bands enables a quantitative evaluation of the thermodynamics of association.