LCST-type thermoresponsive behaviour of interpolymer complexes of well-defined poly(poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate)s and poly(acrylic acid) synthesized by ATRP

Szabó, Ákos and Szanka, István and Tolnai, Gyula and Szarka, Györgyi Éva and Iván, Béla (2017) LCST-type thermoresponsive behaviour of interpolymer complexes of well-defined poly(poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate)s and poly(acrylic acid) synthesized by ATRP. POLYMER, 111. pp. 61-66. ISSN 0032-3861

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Abstract

Unexpected tremendous effect of poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) as polydonor on the thermoresponsive behaviour of the comb-like poly(poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate) (PPEGMA500) with short poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) side chains as H-bond acceptor, both synthesized by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), has been found indicating the formation of a unique class of interpolymer complexes between these well-defined polymers. Strikingly, the aqueous solutions of the PPEGMA500-PAA interpolymer complexes possess LCST-type thermoresponsive behaviour with hysteresis at significantly lower temperatures (∼40–50 °C) than that of PPEGMA500, which is attributed to the decreased hydrophilicity of the complexes. It is revealed that thermal phase transition temperatures (TPT) of the PPEGMA500-PAA interpolymer complexes have a minimum in the near of 1.3 ethylene glycol/acrylic acid (EG/AA) monomer unit molar ratio, in accordance with the dynamic light scattering (DLS) results, and the TPT can be fine tuned by varying the EG/AA ratio, the molecular weight of the PPEGMA500 and pH of the solution. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd

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