A Novel Temperature-Dependent Hydrogel Emulsion with Sol/Gel Reversible Phase Transition Behavior Based on Polystyrene-co-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Core-Shell Nanoparticle.

Macromolecular Rapid Communications
Yingnan JiangQuan Lin

Abstract

As a kind of temperature-responsive hydrogel, polystyrene-co-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PS-co-PNIPAM/PNIPAM) core-shell nanoparticles prepared by two-step copolymerization are widely studied and used because of their specific structures and properties. Unlike most reports about the steady stability of PS-co-PNIPAM/PNIPAM core-shell nanoparticle hydrogel emulsion, in this work, the PS-co-PNIPAM/PNIPAM core-shell nanoparticle hydrogel emulsion (symbolized as PS/PNIPAM hydrogel emulsion), which is prepared after the second step of synthesis and without washing out a large number of PNIPAM polymer segments, shows a reversible temperature-dependent sol-gel transition characteristic during the temperature range of 34-80 °C. The PS/PNIPAM hydrogel emulsion is a normal solution at room temperature, and it changes from a sol to a gel statue when the temperature approaches up to low critical solution temperature (LCST). As the temperature continues to increase, the gel (core-shell nanoparticles as the crosslinkers and the linear PNIPAM chain as the 3D gel network) of the PS/PNIPAM hydrogel emulsion gradually shrinks and drains linearly. Compared with most crosslinked hydrogels, the hydrogel here can be arbit...Continue Reading

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