pH Responsiveness of hydrogels formed by telechelic polyampholytes
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7SM00315C" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7SM00315C</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7SM00315C" target="_blank" >10.1039/C7SM00315C</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
pH Responsiveness of hydrogels formed by telechelic polyampholytes
Original language description
We investigate the influence of pH on the rheological and structural properties of hydrogels formed by hydrophobic association of the sticky ends of the triblock terpolymer poly(methyl methacrylate)-b-poly(2-(diethylamino)ethyl methacrylate-co-methacrylic acid)-b-poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA-b-P(DEA-co-MAA)-b-PMMA). The middle block is a weak polyampholyte having a pH dependent charge density and sign, which enables tuning of the rheological and structural properties by pH variation. Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) studies of solutions in D2O at 0.05 wt% and pH 3.0 reveal clusters of interconnected spherical micelles having PMMA cores, stabilized by repulsive ionic interactions in the middle polyampholyte block. With increasing pH, the degree of ionization of the DEA units decreases, whereas the one of the MAA units increases, resulting in a complete loss of the correlation between these micelles. At a concentration of 3 wt% at low pH values, the system forms a gel with charged fuzzy spheres from PMMA interacting via a screened Coulomb potential. With increasing pH, the gel disintegrates due to the decrease in the effective charge on the micelles. At both concentrations, the hydrophobic aggregation of micelles is observed near the isoelectric point. At pH 3.0–7.4, the autocorrelation functions measured by rotational dynamic light scattering at 3 wt% exhibit a decay steeper than single exponential, which confirms that the gels are frozen, presumably due to the glassy PMMA cores and hydrophobic interpolyelectrolyte complexes. At pH 11, the diffusion of single micelles is observed in addition to the frozen dynamics.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10403 - Physical chemistry
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GC15-10527J" target="_blank" >GC15-10527J: Spherical „horse in vacuum“ or applicable micelles? Behavior and shape of nanoparticles – anticancer drug carriers in real blood environment.</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Soft Matter
ISSN
1744-683X
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
19
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
3568-3579
UT code for WoS article
000401620300012
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85021736022