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Papadakis CM, Niebuur BJ, Schulte A. Thermoresponsive Polymers under Pressure with a Focus on Poly( N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM). LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:1-20. [PMID: 38149782 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2023]
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Pressure is a key variable in the phase behavior of responsive polymers, both for applications and from a fundamental point of view. In this feature article, we review recent developments, particularly applications of neutron techniques such as small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS), across the temperature-pressure phase diagram. These are complemented by kinetic SANS experiments following pressure jumps. In the prototype system poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM), QENS revealed the pressure-dependent characteristics of hydration water around the lower critical solution temperature transition. The size, water content, and inner structure of the mesoglobules formed in the two-phase region depend strongly on pressure, as shown by SANS. Beside these changes at the phase transition, the mesoglobule formation at low pressure is determined by kinetic factors, namely the formation of a polymer-rich, rigid shell, which hampers further growth by coalescence. At high pressure, in contrast, the growth proceeds by diffusion-limited coalescence without any kinetic hindrance. The disintegration of the mesoglobules evolves either via chain release from their surface or via swelling, depending on the osmotic pressure of the water. Moreover, we report on the profound influence of pressure on the cononsolvency effect. In the temperature-pressure frame, the one-phase region is hugely expanded upon the addition of the cosolvent methanol. SANS experiments unveil the enthalpic and entropic contributions to the effective Flory-Huggins interaction parameter between the segments and the solvent mixture. QENS experiments demonstrate an increase in polymer associated water with pressure, whereas methanol is released. Correspondingly, the solvent phase becomes enriched in methanol, providing a mechanism for the breakdown of cononsolvency at a high pressure. Finally, we outline future opportunities for high-pressure studies of thermoresponsive polymers, with a focus on neutron methods.
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- Christine M Papadakis
- TUM School of Natural Sciences, Physics Department, Soft Matter Physics Group, Technical University of Munich, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- TUM School of Natural Sciences, Physics Department, Soft Matter Physics Group, Technical University of Munich, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, 4111 Libra Drive, Orlando, Florida 32816-2385, United States
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Hossain MD, Grandes Reyes CF, Zhang C, Chen SPR, Monteiro MJ. Nonionic Polymer with Flat Upper Critical Solution Temperature Behavior in Water. Biomacromolecules 2021; 23:174-181. [PMID: 34898168 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.1c01198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We rationally designed a monomer that when polymerized formed a well-defined nonionic polymer [poly(2-(methacryloyloxy) ethylureido glycinamide), PMEGA] by reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer with a flat and tunable upper critical solution temperature (UCST) in water. The monomer was made in one pot from commercially available compounds and with ease of purification. Strong hydrogen-bonding side groups on the polymer produced sharp coil-to-globule transitions upon cooling below its UCST. Ideal random copolymers produced with butyl methacrylate also showed flat UCST profiles, in which the UCST increased with a greater butyl methacrylate copolymer composition from 7 to 65 °C. In the presence of NaCl, the UCST decreased linearly with NaCl concentration due to the "salting-in" effect, and it was found that the slopes from the linear decrease of UCST were nearly identical for all copolymer compositions. This new polymer and its copolymers support the hypothesis that strong hydrogen bonding between the side groups allowed the flat UCST to be readily tuned with a high level of predictability. We postulate that this polymer system may provide wide biological applicability similar to that found for the well-used flat lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide).
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- Md D Hossain
- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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Kolouchová K, Lobaz V, Beneš H, de la Rosa VR, Babuka D, Švec P, Černoch P, Hrubý M, Hoogenboom R, Štěpánek P, Groborz O. Thermoresponsive properties of polyacrylamides in physiological solutions. Polym Chem 2021. [DOI: 10.1039/d1py00843a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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We show that the cloud point temperature (TCP) of thermoresponsive polyacrylamides is considerably lower in physiologically relevant solvents (phosphate-buffered saline, serum) than in pure water. This decrease of TCP may be critical for some biomedical applications.
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- Kristýna Kolouchová
- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Science, Heyrovsky square 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Science, Heyrovsky square 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Science, Heyrovsky square 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S4, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
- AVROXA BV, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 82, B-9052 Ghent, Belgium
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- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Science, Heyrovsky square 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic
- Department of Biophysics, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, Prague 2, 121 16, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Science, Heyrovsky square 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic
- Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Charles University, Hlavova 8, Prague 2, 128 00, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Science, Heyrovsky square 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Science, Heyrovsky square 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S4, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Science, Heyrovsky square 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Science, Heyrovsky square 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic
- Institute of Biophysics and Informatics, Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Salmovská 1, 120 00 Prague 2, Czech Republic
- Department of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Charles University, Faculty of Science, Hlavova 8, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Guo H, Cheng X, Li H, Li J, Wei J, Feng C. Synthesis, micellar structures and emission mechanisms of an AIE and DDED-featured fluorescent pH- and thermo-meter. RSC Adv 2020; 10:23532-23542. [PMID: 35517342 PMCID: PMC9054736 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra01000f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2020] [Accepted: 05/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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A new nanoprobe, the luminescent diblock copolymer PNIPAM(MAh-4)-b-P4VP (PN4P), with pH- and thermo-responsive deprotonation-driven emission decay (DDED) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) features was designed and synthesized. The nanoprobe PN4P can form micellar structures in water with reversible dual-responsive fluorescence (FL) behavior within a wide pH range of 2–11. The critical solution temperature was found at about 32, 30 and 27 °C as the pH switched from 2, 7 to 11. The critical pH value of the probe was about 4.0, and the micelles showed a core–shell inversion in response to pH and thermal stimuli, accompanied by a desirable emission tunability. P4VP as the micellar shell at pH = 2 was more easily dehydrated with the increase in temperature as compared to PNIPAM as the micellar shell at pH > 4. The strongest dehydration of the P4VP shell would make PN4P the most strongly aggregated and the most AIE-active, which supports the 2.10-fold most distinguished thermal-responsive emission enhancement at pH = 2. Moreover, a dramatic acidochromic redshift of the emission band from 450 (pH > 4) to 490 nm (pH = 2) was observed, and the maximum emission at pH = 2 was enhanced by about 2.07-fold as compared with that at pH = 7. Therefore, the probe displays the desired dual responses and good reversibility. AIE and DDED are the two major mechanisms responsible for the dual-responsive emission change, with AIE playing a more important role than DDED. This work offers a promising approach to interpreting temperature (range from 28 to 40 °C) and pH changes (range from 2 to 7) in water. A nanoprobe in water features pH- and thermal-responsive micellar/clustering structures, deprotonation-driven emission decay (DDED) and aggregation-induced emission (AIE).![]()
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- He Guo
- Green Catalysis Center
- College of Chemistry
- Zhengzhou University
- Zhengzhou
- China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences
- CAS Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface and Thermodynamics
- Institute of Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing 100190
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- Green Catalysis Center
- College of Chemistry
- Zhengzhou University
- Zhengzhou
- China
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- Green Catalysis Center
- College of Chemistry
- Zhengzhou University
- Zhengzhou
- China
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- Green Catalysis Center
- College of Chemistry
- Zhengzhou University
- Zhengzhou
- China
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- Green Catalysis Center
- College of Chemistry
- Zhengzhou University
- Zhengzhou
- China
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Tavagnacco L, Zaccarelli E, Chiessi E. On the molecular origin of the cooperative coil-to-globule transition of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in water. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:9997-10010. [PMID: 29619464 PMCID: PMC5932979 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp00537k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The cooperativity of PNIPAM coil-to-globule transition in water arises from the structuring of solvent in proximity to hydrophobic groups.
By means of atomistic molecular dynamics simulations we investigate the behaviour of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), PNIPAM, in water at temperatures below and above the lower critical solution temperature (LCST), including the undercooled regime. The transition between water soluble and insoluble states at the LCST is described as a cooperative process involving an intramolecular coil-to-globule transition preceding the aggregation of chains and the polymer precipitation. In this work we investigate the molecular origin of such cooperativity and the evolution of the hydration pattern in the undercooled polymer solution. The solution behaviour of an atactic 30-mer at high dilution is studied in the temperature interval from 243 to 323 K with a favourable comparison to available experimental data. In the water soluble states of PNIPAM we detect a correlation between polymer segmental dynamics and diffusion motion of bound water, occurring with the same activation energy. Simulation results show that below the coil-to-globule transition temperature PNIPAM is surrounded by a network of hydrogen bonded water molecules and that the cooperativity arises from the structuring of water clusters in proximity to hydrophobic groups. Differently, the perturbation of the hydrogen bond pattern involving water and amide groups occurs above the transition temperature. Altogether these findings reveal that even above the LCST PNIPAM remains largely hydrated and that the coil-to-globule transition is related with a significant rearrangement of the solvent in the proximity of the surface of the polymer. The comparison between the hydrogen bonding of water in the surrounding of PNIPAM isopropyl groups and in the bulk displays a decreased structuring of solvent at the hydrophobic polymer–water interface across the transition temperature, as expected because of the topological extension along the chain of such interface. No evidence of an upper critical solution temperature behaviour, postulated in theoretical and thermodynamics studies of PNIPAM aqueous solution, is observed in the low temperature domain.
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- L Tavagnacco
- CNR-ISC, Uos Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy
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Fowler M, Duhamel J, Qiu XP, Korchagina E, Winnik FM. Temperature response of aqueous solutions of pyrene end-labeled poly(N
-isopropylacrylamide)s probed by steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/polb.24543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- Michael Fowler
- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Polymer Research, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo; Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Polymer Research, Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo; Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada
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- Department of Chemistry; Université de Montréal, CP 6128 Succursale Centre Ville; Montréal Québec H3C 3J7 Canada
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- Department of Chemistry; Université de Montréal, CP 6128 Succursale Centre Ville; Montréal Québec H3C 3J7 Canada
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- Department of Chemistry; Université de Montréal, CP 6128 Succursale Centre Ville; Montréal Québec H3C 3J7 Canada
- Department of Chemistry, and Faculty of Pharmacy; University of Helsinki; Finland
- WPI Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science, (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki; Tsukuba 305-0044 Japan
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Foralosso R, Moir L, Mastrotto F, Sasso L, Tchoryk A, Selo A, Grabowska A, Ashford MB, Aylott J, Gellert PR, Spain SG, Alexander C. Control of aggregation temperatures in mixed and blended cytocompatible thermoresponsive block co-polymer nanoparticles. SOFT MATTER 2017; 13:7441-7452. [PMID: 28967661 DOI: 10.1039/c7sm00920h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A small library of thermoresponsive amphiphilic copolymers based on polylactide-block-poly((2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethyl methacrylate)-co-(oligoethylene glycol methacrylate)) (PLA-b-P(DEGMA)-co-(OEGMA)), was synthesised by copper-mediated controlled radical polymerisation (CRP) with increasing ratios of OEGMA : DEGMA. These polymers were combined in two ways to form nanoparticles with controllable thermal transition temperatures as measured by particle aggregation. The first technique involved the blending of two (PLA-b-P(DEGMA)-co-(OEGMA)) polymers together prior to assembling nanoparticles (NPs). The second method involved mixing pre-formed nanoparticles of single (PLA-b-P(DEGMA)-co-(OEGMA)) polymers. The observed critical aggregation temperature Tt did not change in a linear relationship with the ratios of each copolymer either in the nanoparticles blended from different copolymers or in the mixtures of pre-formed nanoparticles. However, where co-polymer mixtures were based on (OEG)9MA ratios within 5-10 mole%, a linear relationship between (OEG)9MA composition in the blends and Tt was obtained. The data suggest that OEGMA-based copolymers are tunable over a wide temperature range given suitable co-monomer content in the linear polymers or nanoparticles. Moreover, the thermal transitions of the nanoparticles were reversible and repeatable, with the cloud point curves being essentially invariant across at least three heating and cooling cycles, and a selected nanoparticle formulation was found to be readily endocytosed in representative cancer cells and fibroblasts.
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- Ruggero Foralosso
- School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
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Osváth Z, Iván B. The Dependence of the Cloud Point, Clearing Point, and Hysteresis of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) on Experimental Conditions: The Need for Standardization of Thermoresponsive Transition Determinations. MACROMOL CHEM PHYS 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201600470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Zsófia Osváth
- Polymer Chemistry Research Group; Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry; Research Centre for Natural Sciences; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Magyar tudósok krt. 2 H-1117 Budapest Hungary
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- Polymer Chemistry Research Group; Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry; Research Centre for Natural Sciences; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Magyar tudósok krt. 2 H-1117 Budapest Hungary
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Hirosawa K, Fujii K, Ueki T, Kitazawa Y, Watanabe M, Shibayama M. Pressure Response of a Thermoresponsive Polymer in an Ionic Liquid. Macromolecules 2016. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Kazu Hirosawa
- Institute
for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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- Graduate
School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, 2-16-1 Tokiwadai, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8611, Japan
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- Polymer
Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044 Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai,
Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai,
Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Institute
for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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Halperin A, Kröger M, Winnik FM. Poly(N-isopropylacrylamid)-Phasendiagramme: 50 Jahre Forschung. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201506663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Halperin A, Kröger M, Winnik FM. Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Phase Diagrams: Fifty Years of Research. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:15342-67. [PMID: 26612195 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201506663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 589] [Impact Index Per Article: 65.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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In 1968, Heskins and Guillet published the first systematic study of the phase diagram of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM), at the time a "young polymer" first synthesized in 1956. Since then, PNIPAM became the leading member of the growing families of thermoresponsive polymers and of stimuli-responsive, "smart" polymers in general. Its thermal response is unanimously attributed to its phase behavior. Yet, in spite of 50 years of research, a coherent quantitative picture remains elusive. In this Review we survey the reported phase diagrams, discuss the differences and comment on theoretical ideas regarding their possible origins. We aim to alert the PNIPAM community to open questions in this reputably mature domain.
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- Avraham Halperin
- LIPHY, Université Grenoble Alpes, 38000 Grenoble (France). .,LIPHY, CNRS, 38000 Grenoble (France).
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- Polymer Physics, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Leopold-Ruzicka-Weg 4, 8093 Zurich (Switzerland) http://complexfluids.ethz.ch.
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- Department of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, CP 6128 Succursale Centre Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3J7 (Canada). .,WPI International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044 (Japan). .,Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 55, 00014 Helsinki (Finland).
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Zhang Q, Tosi F, Üǧdüler S, Maji S, Hoogenboom R. Tuning the LCST and UCST Thermoresponsive Behavior of Poly(N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate) by Electrostatic Interactions with Trivalent Metal Hexacyano Anions and Copolymerization. Macromol Rapid Commun 2014; 36:633-9. [DOI: 10.1002/marc.201400550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2014] [Revised: 10/23/2014] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- Qilu Zhang
- Supramolecular Chemistry Group; Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry; Ghent University; Krijgslaan 281 S4 B-9000 Gent Belgium
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- Supramolecular Chemistry Group; Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry; Ghent University; Krijgslaan 281 S4 B-9000 Gent Belgium
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- Supramolecular Chemistry Group; Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry; Ghent University; Krijgslaan 281 S4 B-9000 Gent Belgium
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- Supramolecular Chemistry Group; Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry; Ghent University; Krijgslaan 281 S4 B-9000 Gent Belgium
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- Supramolecular Chemistry Group; Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry; Ghent University; Krijgslaan 281 S4 B-9000 Gent Belgium
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Althans D, Enders S. Investigation of the swelling behaviour of hydrogels in aqueous acid or alkaline solutions. Mol Phys 2014. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2014.902517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Ebeling B, Eggers S, Hendrich M, Nitschke A, Vana P. Flipping the Pressure- and Temperature-Dependent Cloud-Point Behavior in the Cononsolvency System of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in Water and Ethanol. Macromolecules 2014. [DOI: 10.1021/ma5001139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Bastian Ebeling
- Institut
für Physikalische
Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstr. 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut
für Physikalische
Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstr. 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut
für Physikalische
Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstr. 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut
für Physikalische
Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstr. 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut
für Physikalische
Chemie, Georg-August-Universität, Tammannstr. 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Bang J, Rhee SE, Kim K, Lee BH, Choe S. Effect of hydrogen peroxide on the UCST behavior of PMMA in the modified dispersion polymerization. Macromol Res 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s13233-013-1002-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Althans D, Langenbach K, Enders S. Influence of different alcohols on the swelling behaviour of hydrogels. Mol Phys 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2012.655339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Halperin A, Kröger M. Collapse of Thermoresponsive Brushes and the Tuning of Protein Adsorption. Macromolecules 2011. [DOI: 10.1021/ma201006h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- A. Halperin
- University of Grenoble 1/CNRS, LIPhy UMR 5588, BP 87, 38041 Grenoble, France
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- Polymer Physics, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Tanaka F, Koga T, Kaneda I, Winnik FM. Hydration, phase separation and nonlinear rheology of temperature-sensitive water-soluble polymers. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2011; 23:284105. [PMID: 21709330 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/23/28/284105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The collapse of a poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) chain upon heating and the phase diagrams of aqueous PNIPAM solutions with a very flat lower critical solution temperature (LCST) phase separation line are theoretically studied on the basis of cooperative dehydration (simultaneous dissociation of bound water molecules in a group of correlated sequence), and compared with the experimental observation of temperature-induced coil-globule transition by light scattering methods. The transition becomes sharper with the cooperativity parameter σ of hydration. The reentrant coil-globule-coil transition and cononsolvency in a mixed solvent of water and methanol are also studied from the viewpoint of competitive hydrogen bonds between polymer-water and polymer-methanol. The downward shift of the cloud-point curves (LCST cononsolvency) with the mol fraction of methanol due to the competition is calculated and compared with the experimental data. Aqueous solutions of hydrophobically modified PNIPAM carrying short alkyl chains at both chain ends (telechelic PNIPAM) are theoretically and experimentally studied. The LCST of these solutions is found to shift downward along the sol-gel transition curve as a result of end-chain association (association-induced phase separation), and separate from the coil-globule transition line. Associated structures in the solution, such as flower micelles, mesoglobules, and higher fractal assembly, are studied by ultra small-angle neutron scattering with theoretical modeling of the scattering function. Dynamic-mechanical modulus, nonlinear stationary viscosity, and stress build-up in start-up shear flows of the associated networks are studied on the basis of the affine and non-affine transient network theory. The molecular conditions for thickening, strain hardening, and stress overshoot are found in terms of the nonlinear amplitude A of the chain tension and the tension-dissociation coupling constant g.
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- Fumihiko Tanaka
- Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
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Visak ZP. Phenomenological Interpretation of the Systems Exhibiting a Closed-Loop Liquid-Liquid Phase Diagram by Using a Simple g E-Model. J SOLUTION CHEM 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s10953-010-9644-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Shibayama M. Small-angle neutron scattering on polymer gels: phase behavior, inhomogeneities and deformation mechanisms. Polym J 2010. [DOI: 10.1038/pj.2010.110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Hydration and phase separation of temperature-sensitive water-soluble polymers. CHINESE JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2010. [DOI: 10.1007/s10118-010-1018-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Kojima H, Tanaka F. Cooperative Hydration Induces Discontinuous Volume Phase Transition of Cross-Linked Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Gels in Water. Macromolecules 2010. [DOI: 10.1021/ma100588f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Hiroyuki Kojima
- Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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Zhao C, Wu D, Lian X, Zhang Y, Song X, Zhao H. Amphiphilic Asymmetric Comb Copolymer with Pendant Pyrene Groups and PNIPAM Side Chains: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties, and Self-Assembly. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:6300-8. [DOI: 10.1021/jp1007494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Chuanzhuang Zhao
- Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China
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Tanaka F, Koga T, Kojima H, Winnik FM. Temperature- and Tension-Induced Coil−Globule Transition of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Chains in Water and Mixed Solvent of Water/Methanol. Macromolecules 2009. [DOI: 10.1021/ma801982e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Fumihiko Tanaka
- Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan, and Department of Chemistry and Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Montréal, CP 6128, Succursale Centre Ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan, and Department of Chemistry and Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Montréal, CP 6128, Succursale Centre Ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan, and Department of Chemistry and Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Montréal, CP 6128, Succursale Centre Ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7
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- Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan, and Department of Chemistry and Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Montréal, CP 6128, Succursale Centre Ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7
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Tanaka F, Koga T, Winnik FM. Temperature-responsive polymers in mixed solvents: competitive hydrogen bonds cause cononsolvency. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 101:028302. [PMID: 18764232 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.028302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 181] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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If two good solvents become poor for a polymer when mixed, the solvent pair is called a cononsolvent pair. The sharp reentrant coil-to-globule-to-coil transition of a poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) chain observed in the mixed solvent of water and methanol is shown to be caused by the competitive hydrogen bonding by water and methanol molecules onto the polymer chain. On the basis of a new statistical-mechanical model for competitive hydrogen bonds, the mean square end-to-end distance is theoretically calculated and compared with experiment. The chain sharply collapses at the molar fraction xm approximately 0.2 of methanol, stays collapsed up to xm approximately 0.4, and finally recovers the swollen state at xm approximately 0.6. Such a reentrant coil-globule transition takes place because the total number of hydrogen bonds along the chain exhibits a similar square-well-type depression as a result of the competition.
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- Fumihiko Tanaka
- Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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Ueki T, Watanabe M. Macromolecules in Ionic Liquids: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities. Macromolecules 2008. [DOI: 10.1021/ma800171k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 526] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Takeshi Ueki
- Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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Takenaka M, Iwase N, Nishitsuji S, Ito K. Self-Assembling in Polymerization Processes of N-Isopropylacrylamide. Polym J 2007. [DOI: 10.1295/polymj.pj2007082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Osaka N, Miyazaki S, Okabe S, Endo H, Sasai A, Seno KI, Aoshima S, Shibayama M. Pressure-induced reentrant micellization of amphiphilic block copolymers in dilute aqueous solutions. J Chem Phys 2007; 127:094905. [PMID: 17824763 DOI: 10.1063/1.2766942] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The pressure-induced structural changes of a block copolymer, poly(2-ethoxyethoxyethyl vinyl ether)-block-poly(2-hydroxyethyl vinyl ether) (pEOEOVE-b-pHOVE) in aqueous solutions, were studied by means of small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) from atmospheric pressure up to 400 MPa. pEOEOVE-b-pHOVE formed a spherical micellar structure above 40 degrees C due to poor solubility of pEOEOVE. Micellization phase diagram was determined by DLS, and a covex-upward pressure-temperature (P-T) phase diagram was obtained having a peak around (P,T)=(150 MPa,48 degrees C). The SANS curves at 50 degrees C were analyzed as a function of P. The micellar core size decreased by pressurizing at low P's (P<or=150 MPa) and then increased by further pressurizing (150 MPa<P<400 MPa). It was confirmed that the water volume fraction in the micellar core was larger at high P's than that at low P's even when the core sizes are the same at both pressure regions. This means that the temperature dependence of hydration is more selective at low pressures than at high pressures, in good accordance with our previous results on concentrated aqueous solutions of block copolymers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 048303 (2006)].
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- Noboru Osaka
- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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Okada Y, Tanaka F, Kujawa P, Winnik FM. Unified model of association-induced lower critical solution temperature phase separation and its application to solutions of telechelic poly(ethylene oxide) and of telechelic poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in water. J Chem Phys 2006; 125:244902. [PMID: 17199370 DOI: 10.1063/1.2400230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The authors present a model describing the coexistence of hydrophobic association and phase separation with lower critical solution temperature (LCST) in aqueous solutions of polymers carrying short hydrophobic chains at both chain ends (telechelic associating polymers). The LCST of these solutions is found to decrease along the sol/gel transition curve as a result of both end-chain association (association-induced phase separation) and direct hydrophobic interaction of the end chains with water. The authors relate the magnitude of the LCST decrease to a hydration cooperativity parameter sigma. The LCST decreases substantially (approximately 100 K) in the case of random hydration (sigma=1), whereas only a small shift (approximately 5-10 K) occurs in the case of cooperative hydration (sigma=0.3). The molecular weight dependence of the LCST drop is studied in detail in each case. The results are compared with experimental observations of the cloud points of telechelic poly(ethylene oxide) solutions, in which random hydration predominates, and of telechelic poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) solutions, in which cooperative hydration prevails.
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- Yukinori Okada
- Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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Shen VK, Cheung JK, Errington JR, Truskett TM. Coarse-grained strategy for modeling protein stability in concentrated solutions. II: phase behavior. Biophys J 2006; 90:1949-60. [PMID: 16387768 PMCID: PMC1386775 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.076497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2005] [Accepted: 12/08/2005] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We use highly efficient transition-matrix Monte Carlo simulations to determine equilibrium unfolding curves and fluid phase boundaries for solutions of coarse-grained globular proteins. The model we analyze derives the intrinsic stability of the native state and protein-protein interactions from basic information about protein sequence using heteropolymer collapse theory. It predicts that solutions of low hydrophobicity proteins generally exhibit a single liquid phase near their midpoint temperatures for unfolding, while solutions of proteins with high sequence hydrophobicity display the type of temperature-inverted, liquid-liquid transition associated with aggregation processes of proteins and other amphiphilic molecules. The phase transition occurring in solutions of the most hydrophobic protein we study extends below the unfolding curve, creating an immiscibility gap between a dilute, mostly native phase and a concentrated, mostly denatured phase. The results are qualitatively consistent with the solution behavior of hemoglobin (HbA) and its sickle variant (HbS), and they suggest that a liquid-liquid transition resulting in significant protein denaturation should generally be expected on the phase diagram of high-hydrophobicity protein solutions. The concentration fluctuations associated with this transition could be a driving force for the nonnative aggregation that can occur below the midpoint temperature.
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- Vincent K Shen
- Physical and Chemical Properties Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
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Osaka N, Shibayama M. Pressure-induced phase transitions of hydrophobically solvated block-copolymer solutions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2006; 96:048303. [PMID: 16486903 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.048303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The structures of poly(2-(2-ethoxy)ethoxyethyl vinyl ether)-block-poly(2-methoxyethyl vinyl ether) in D2O have been investigated with small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) as a function of temperature T and pressure P. At ambient pressure, the solution underwent a two-step transition at 40 and 65 degrees C, both of which were convex-upward functions of P having a maximum around P0 approximately 150 MPa. The first transition was assigned to a microphase separation to form a bcc structure, and the second was to a macrophase separation. Pressurizing at 28 degrees C resulted in a macrophase separation with divergence at 350 MPa. At 45 degrees C, a reentrant microphase separation was observed by increasing P. Differences in the states of hydrophobic solvation in the low (P<P0) and high pressure regions (P>P0) are discussed based on the SANS structure factors.
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- Noboru Osaka
- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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Visak ZP, Szydlowski J, Rebelo LPN. A Simple Quantum Statistical Thermodynamics Interpretation of an Impressive Phase Diagram Pressure Shift upon (H/D) Isotopic Substitution in Water + 3-Methylpyridine. J Phys Chem B 2005; 110:1377-87. [PMID: 16471688 DOI: 10.1021/jp0556207] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In a previous work (J. Phys. Chem. B 2003, 107, 9837), we reported liquid-liquid-phase splitting at negative pressures in mixtures of H2O + D2O + 3-methylpyridine (3-MP) at the limit of pure H2O as the solvent, thus extending for the first time the L-L phase diagrams to this metastable region. We showed that there is an intimate relation between pressure and solvent deuterium content. Isotopic substitution (H/D) in water provokes subtle entropic effects that, in turn, trigger a significant pressure shift, opening a pressure-wide miscibility window of as much as 1600 bar. Isotope effects are quantum in origin. Therefore, a model that is both pressure-dependent and considers quantization constitutes a necessary tool if one wishes to fully describe the p, T, x critical demixing in these systems. In the current work, the statistical-mechanical theory of isotope effects is combined with a compressible pressure-dependent model. This combination enabled us to predict successfully the overall L-L phase diagram via differences in the vibrational mode frequencies of water on its transfer from the pure state to that of dilution in 3-MP: each of the three librational modes undergo a calculated red-shift of -(250 +/- 30) cm(-1), while the overall internal frequencies contribution is estimated as a total +(400 +/- 25) cm(-1) blue-shift.
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- Zoran P Visak
- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da Republica, Apartado 127, 2780-901 Oeiras, Portugal
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Okada Y, Tanaka F. Cooperative Hydration, Chain Collapse, and Flat LCST Behavior in Aqueous Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Solutions. Macromolecules 2005. [DOI: 10.1021/ma0502497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 347] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Nasimova I, Karino T, Okabe S, Nagao M, Shibayama M. Effect of ionization on the temperature- and pressure-induced phase transitions of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) gels. J Chem Phys 2004; 121:9708-15. [PMID: 15538895 DOI: 10.1063/1.1804491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The ionization effects on the pressure-induced phase transition of weakly charged poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-acrylic acid) (PNIPA-AAc) gels have been investigated by small-angle neutron scattering. At low temperature, T, and pressure, P, the structure factor of PNIPA-AAc gels was well represented by a Lorentzian (L) function, which was similar to noncharged PNIPA gels. However, at high Ps, the contribution of inhomogeneities became large and a squared-Lorentzian term had to be added in addition to the L term. At high Ts, on the other hand, a scattering maximum appeared, indicating microphase separation. This scattering maximum was suppressed by increasing P up to P approximately 100 MPa and then reincreased at higher Ps. The following facts were disclosed: (1) The peak position and height were very sensitive to P, which is mainly ascribed to strong pressure dependence of hydrophobic interaction, (2) ionization leads to microphase separation at elevated temperatures, (3) the re-entrant phase behavior is commonly observed in the P-T plane due to the parabolic variation of the polymer-solvent interaction with P, and (4) the pressure and temperature dependence of the structure factor was reproduced with the Rabin-Panyukov theory and was interpreted with a convexity of hydrophobic interaction with respect to pressure.
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- Irina Nasimova
- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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Nasimova I, Karino T, Okabe S, Nagao M, Shibayama M. Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Investigation of Pressure Influence on the Structure of Weakly Charged Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Solutions and Gels. Macromolecules 2004. [DOI: 10.1021/ma049058e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Irina Nasimova
- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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Moelbert S, Normand B, De Los Rios P. Solvent-induced micelle formation in a hydrophobic interaction model. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2004; 69:061924. [PMID: 15244634 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.69.061924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2003] [Revised: 03/10/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We investigate the aggregation of amphiphilic molecules by adapting the two-state Muller-Lee-Graziano model for water, in which a solvent-induced hydrophobic interaction is included implicitly. We study the formation of various types of micelle as a function of the distribution of hydrophobic regions at the molecular surface. Successive substitution of nonpolar surfaces by polar ones demonstrates the influence of hydrophobicity on the upper and lower critical solution temperatures. Aggregates of lipid molecules, described by a refinement of the model in which a hydrophobic tail of variable length interacts with different numbers of water molecules, are stabilized as the length of the tail increases. We demonstrate that the essential features of micelle formation are primarily solvent-induced, and are explained within a model which focuses only on the alteration of water structure in the vicinity of the hydrophobic surface regions of amphiphiles in solution.
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- S Moelbert
- Institut de Thèorie des Phènomènes Physiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Shibayama M, Isono K, Okabe S, Karino T, Nagao M. SANS Study on Pressure-Induced Phase Separation of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Aqueous Solutions and Gels. Macromolecules 2004. [DOI: 10.1021/ma0359685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Mitsuhiro Shibayama
- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 106-1 Shirakata, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 106-1 Shirakata, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 106-1 Shirakata, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 106-1 Shirakata, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 106-1 Shirakata, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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Najdanovic-Visak V, Esperança JMSS, Rebelo LPN, Nunes da Ponte M, Guedes HJR, Seddon KR, de Sousa HC, Szydlowski J. Pressure, Isotope, and Water Co-solvent Effects in Liquid−Liquid Equilibria of (Ionic Liquid + Alcohol) Systems. J Phys Chem B 2003. [DOI: 10.1021/jp034576x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Moelbert S, De Los Rios P. Chaotropic effect and preferential binding in a hydrophobic interaction model. J Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1609982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Visak ZP, Rebelo LPN, Szydlowski J. The “Hidden” Phase Diagram of Water + 3-Methylpyridine at Large Absolute Negative Pressures. J Phys Chem B 2003. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0223206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Zoran P. Visak
- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, ITQB 2, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da Republica, Apartado 127, 2780-901 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, ITQB 2, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da Republica, Apartado 127, 2780-901 Oeiras, Portugal
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- Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, ITQB 2, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da Republica, Apartado 127, 2780-901 Oeiras, Portugal
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Moelbert S, De Los Rios P. Hydrophobic Interaction Model for Upper and Lower Critical Solution Temperatures. Macromolecules 2003. [DOI: 10.1021/ma025890c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Susanne Moelbert
- Institut de Physique Théorique, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, and INFM Sezione di Torino-Politecnico, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
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- Institut de Physique Théorique, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, and INFM Sezione di Torino-Politecnico, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
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Milewska A, Szydlowski J, Rebelo LPN. Viscosity and ultrasonic studies of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-water solutions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1002/polb.10469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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