Vasantha, V. A.; Jana, S.; Parthiban, A.; Vancso, J. G., Water swelling, brine soluble imidazole based zwitterionic polymers : synthesis and study of reversible UCST behaviour and gel-sol transitions. Chemical Communications 2014, 50, (1), p 46-48. DOI:10.1039/c3cc44407d
Abstract:
New vinylbenzene substituted imidazole based zwitterionic polymers with unique characteristics like swelling in water and solubility in concentrated brine solution in which they exhibited a reversible upper critical solution temperature (UCST) and gel–sol transitions are reported herein.
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This research / project is supported by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) - Innovative Marine Antifouling Solutions (IMAS)
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