Other Copolymers of NIPAM

The temperature dependence of solutions of an NIPAM-styrene copolymer, PNIPAM-seg-St, of Mw = 13.3 x 10 gmol in which hydrophobic St segments were evenly spaced along the chain was investigated under high di- 

A number of diblock copolymers of NIPAM and hydrophobic comonomers have been prepared by various groups and assessed in terms of micellar structure, thermosensitivity, and apphcations. For example, PS-fo-PNIPAM was shown to form either micelles consisting of a PS core and a PNIPAM corona, or vesicles. The assembhes were colloidally stable at elevated temperature [262-266]. 

PVCL is one of several nonionic water-soluble polymers that undergo heat-induced phase separation in water (Fig. 13). It has a repeating unit consisting of a cyclic amide, where the amide nitrogen is connected directly to the hydrophobic polymer backbone. 

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