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cationic polyelectrolyte brushes. Prog Polym Sci 64:52–75
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generation. Nature 337:519–525
125. Beaman DK, Robertson EJ, Richmond GL (2011) Unique assembly of charged polymers at
the oil − water interface. Langmuir 27:2104–2106
126. Beaman DK, Robertson EJ, Richmond GL (2012) Ordered polyelectrolyte assembly at the
oil–water interface. Proc Natl Acad Sci 109:3226–3231
127. Balzerowski P, Meister K, Versluis J, Bakker HJ (2016) Heterodyne-detected sum frequency
generation spectroscopy of polyacrylic acid at the air/water-interface. Phys Chem Chem
Phys 18:2481–2487
128. Kondo T, Nomura K, Murou M, Gemmei-Ide M, Kitano H, Noguchi H, Uosaki K, Ohno K,
Saruwatari Y (2012) Structure of water in the vicinity of a zwitterionic polymer brush as
examined by sum frequency generation method. Colloid Surf B 100:126–132
129. Shibayama M, Tanaka T (1993) Volume phase transition and related phenomena of polymer
gels. Adv Polym Sci 109:1–62
130. Koetting MC, Peters JT, Steichen SD, Peppas NA (2015) Stimulus-responsive hydrogels:
theory, modern advances, and applications. Mater Sci Eng R Rep. 93:1–49
131. Wu C (1998) A comparison between the ‘coil-to-globule’ transition of linear chains and the
‘‘volume phase transition’’ of spherical microgels. Polymer 39:4609–4619
132. Li Y, Tanaka T (1992) Phase transitions of gels. Annu Rev Mater Sci 22:243–277
133. Olejniczak MN, Piechocki K, Kozanecki M, Koynov K, Adamus A, Wach RA (2016) The
influence of selected NSAIDs on volume phase transition in poly(2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethyl
methacrylate) hydrogels. J Mater Chem B 4:1528–1534
134. Tanaka T (1978) Collapse of gels and the critical endpoint. Phys Rev Lett 40(12):820–823
135. Dusek K, Patterson D (1968) Transition in swollen polymer networks induced by
intramolecular condensation. J Polym Sci A 6:1209–1216
136. Pititsen OB, Eizner YE (1965) The theory of helix-coil transitions in macromolecules.
Biofizika 10:3–6
137. DeGennes PG (1972) Exponents for the excluded volume problem as derived by the Wilson
method. Phys Lett A 38:339–340
138. Lifshitz IM, Grosberg AY, Khokhlov AR (1978) Some problems of the statistical physics of
polymer chains with volume interaction. Rev Modern Phys 50:683–713
139. Maeda Y, Nakamura T, Ikeda I (2002) Hydration and phase behavior of poly(Nvinylcaprolactam) and poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) in water. Macromolecules 35:217–222
140. Schafer-Soenen H, Moerkerke R, Berghmans H, Koningsveld R, Dusek K, Solc K (1997)
Zero and off-zero critical concentrations in systems containing polydisperse polymers with
very high molar masses. 2. The system water − poly(vinyl methyl ether). Macromolecules
30:410–416
141. Pyda M, Van Durme K, Wunderlich B, Van Mele B (2005) Heat capacity of poly(vinyl
methyl ether). J Polym Sci B 43:2141–2153
142. Vancoillie G, Frank D, Hoogenboom R (2014) Thermoresponsive poly(oligo ethylene glycol
acrylates). Prog Polym Sci 39:1074–1095
143. Wach RA, Mitomo H, Yoshii F, Kum T (2002) Hydrogel of radiation-induced cross-linked
hydroxypropylcellulose. Macromol Mater Eng 287:285–295
144. Xia X, Tang S, Lu X, Hu Z (2003) Formation and volume phase transition of hydroxypropyl
cellulose microgels in salt solution. Macromolecules 36:3695–3698
145. Cho EC, Lee J, Cho K (2003) Role of bound water and hydrophobic interaction in phase
transition of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) aqueous solution. Macromolecules 36:9929–9934
146. Maeda Y, Kubota T, Yamauchi H, Nakaji T, Kitano H (2007) Hydration changes of poly(2(2-methoxyethoxy)ethyl methacrylate) during thermosensitive phase separation in water.
Langmuir 23:11259–11265
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