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Título: Double Critical Phenomena in (Water + Polyacrylamides) Solutions
Autor: Rebelo, L. P. N. 
Visak, Z. P. 
Sousa, H. C. de 
Szydlowski, J. 
Azevedo, R. Gomes de 
Ramos, A. M. 
Najdanovic-Visak, V. 
Ponte, M. Nunes da 
Klein, J. 
Data: 26-Fev-2002
Editora: American Chemical Society
Citação: Macromolecules. 35:5 (2002) 1887-1895
Resumo: Aqueous solutions of a copolymer derivative of a polyacrylamide showed very interesting behavior, that in which the system evolves from one kind of double criticality (pressure−hypercritical point) to another (temperature−hypercritical point) as polymer molecular weight decreases. While in the neighboring region of the former point one expects a change from contraction to expansion upon mixing with increasing pressure; in the latter, mixing should be accompanied by a change in the sign of the excess enthalpy as temperature increases. L−L equilibria studies were performed in a wide range of (T, p) experimental conditions (300 < T/K < 460, 0 < p/bar < 700). Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), usually called PNIPAAM, and its copolymer derivative poly(N-isopropylacrylamide/1-deoxy-1-methacrylamido-d-glucitol), herein referred to as CP, were investigated for several chain lengths and compositions. An He/Ne laser light scattering technique was used for the determination of cloud-point (T, p, x) conditions. The experimental results were used to assist in the determination of computed values at temperatures beyond experimental accessibility, which are obtained by the application of a modified Flory−Huggins model. The model also estimates the excess properties of these solutions. Because of the intrinsic self-associating nature of these systems, all studied solutions show a lower critical solution temperature (LCST). Both modeling results and H/D isotope substitution effects suggest also the existence of upper critical solution temperatures (UCST) and therefore closed-loop-type phase diagrams. However, these upper-temperature branches are experimentally inaccessible. Pressure effects are particularly interesting. For a low-MW CP, experimental data display a tendency toward a reentrant T−p locus, which supports the conjecture that these systems are inherently of the closed-loop type. In the cases of PNIPAAMs and high-MW CPs, the T−p isopleths show extrema. The copolymer aqueous solutions under study in this work model a single chemical system where pressure−hypercritical behavior evolves to a temperature−hypercritical one as the chain length decreases.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/10447
ISSN: 0024-9297
DOI: 10.1021/ma011533a
Direitos: openAccess
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