Effect of Temperature on Polymer Solutions

The free energy of a polymer consists of the entropic term and the internal energy of the segmental interactions, U, which represents the excluded-volume effect, and can be expanded as a power series of the segment density p (Eq. 1)  

Phase transitions of aqueous polymer solutions have been the subject of several earlier reviews [97-104]. In this review, we will focus primarily on the collapse of neutral water-soluble polymers in aqueous media and the var- 

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