TY - GEN
T1 - Equation-of-state model for temperature-responsive polymers with tunable response onset
AU - Manias, E.
AU - Kisselev, Alexei M.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The phase behavior of aqueous solutions of temperature-responsive (ethylene oxide)/ethylene copolymers with tunable lower critical solution temperatures (LCST) is explored using an equation of state approach. The LCST in water of these polymers is tailored by their chemical composition, specifically by the balance of hydrophilic to hydrophobic groups in the polymer. The general formalism of the lattice-fluid with hydrogen-bonding theory, adjusted here to account for multiple types of hydrogen bonds, is employed, and the theoretical predictions are compared with experimental systems. The developed theoretical model is shown to be effective in describing the phase behavior of these systems, and the model parameters seem to be transferable between different homologous copolymer series.
AB - The phase behavior of aqueous solutions of temperature-responsive (ethylene oxide)/ethylene copolymers with tunable lower critical solution temperatures (LCST) is explored using an equation of state approach. The LCST in water of these polymers is tailored by their chemical composition, specifically by the balance of hydrophilic to hydrophobic groups in the polymer. The general formalism of the lattice-fluid with hydrogen-bonding theory, adjusted here to account for multiple types of hydrogen bonds, is employed, and the theoretical predictions are compared with experimental systems. The developed theoretical model is shown to be effective in describing the phase behavior of these systems, and the model parameters seem to be transferable between different homologous copolymer series.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.2827051
DO - 10.1063/1.2827051
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:72749108705
SN - 9780735404779
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
SP - 636
EP - 651
BT - Computational Methods in Science and Engineering - Theory and Computation
T2 - 5th International Conference on Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, ICCMSE 2007
Y2 - 25 September 2007 through 30 September 2007
ER -