Open AccessCover Image, Volume 57, Issue 4
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of polymer science part b: polymer physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1099-0488
pISSN - 0887-6266
DOI - 10.1002/polb.24653
Subject(s) - isopropyl , cover (algebra) , polymer , oxazoline , polymer science , materials science , chemistry , computer science , physics , polymer chemistry , composite material , organic chemistry , mechanical engineering , engineering , catalysis
Besides temperature, self‐aggregation of poly(2‐isopropyl‐2‐oxazoline) can also be triggered via pH in aqueous solution above pH 5 at 25°C. Reported on page 210, pH‐induced self‐assembly of poly(2‐isopropyl‐2‐oxazoline) was characterized in the work of Eda Cagli, Erol Yildrim, Shuo‐Wang Yang, and Irem Erel‐Göktepe using dynamic light scattering, scanning electron microscopy imaging, and fluorescence spectroscopy techniques. The mechanism of self‐assembly was examined using density functional theory methods. The poly(2‐isopropyl‐2‐oxazoline) end group and concentration of poly(2‐isopropyl‐2‐oxazoline) solution were found to be critical to the aggregate size. (DOI: 10.1002/polb.24773 )