New thermoresponsive polymers ofN-ester-substituted polyacrylamides were discovered, and theN-ester-substitute exerting a great influence on the solution property was demonstrated.
A novel high-throughput approach to rapidly measure the lower critical solution temperature, critical micelle concentration and critical micelle temperature of thermoresponsive polymers was developed and utilized to generate a physicochemical ‘MAP’ of a polymer series.
A polyelectrolyte-containing copolymer with a CO2/N2-switchable cloud point, resulting from the gas-induced alternation of hydrophilicity, was prepared.