- Title
- Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) response to salt concentration and anion identity: a brush-on-brush study
- Creator
- Humphreys, Ben A.; Johnson, Edwin C.; Wanless, Erica J.; Webber, Grant B.
- Relation
- Langmuir Vol. 35, Issue 33, p. 10818-10830
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b00695
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- The stability of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) brush-modified colloidal silica particles was compared to asymmetric and symmetric PNIPAM brush direct force measurements in the presence of 1, 10, and 500 mM aqueous salt solution of KCl, KNO3, and KSCN between 10 and 45 °C. Dynamic light scattering measurements highlighted subtle variations in the salt-mediated thermoresponse, while atomic force microscopy (AFM) force curves between a bare silica or PNIPAM brush-modified colloid probe and a planar PNIPAM brush elucidated differences in brush interactions. The AFM force curves in the presence of KCl primarily revealed steric interactions between the surfaces, while KNO3 and KSCN solutions exhibited electrosteric interactions on approach as a function of the chaotropic nature of the ion and the solution concentration. The symmetric PNIPAM brush interaction highlighted significant variations between KCl and KSCN at 1 and 500 mM concentrations, while the approach and retraction force curves were relatively similar at 10 mM concentration. The combination of these techniques enabled the stability of PNIPAM brush-modified colloidal dispersions in the presence of electrolyte to be better understood with specific ion binding and the solution Debye length playing a significant role.
- Subject
- salts; anions; thermoresponsive polymers; colloids; probes
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1418547
- Identifier
- uon:37370
- Identifier
- ISSN:0743-7463
- Rights
- This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in the journal Langmuir, ©2019 American Chemical Society, after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b03484
- Language
- eng
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