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166. Suzuki Y, Suzuki N, Takasu Y, Nishio I (2007) A study on the structure of water in an
aqueous solution by solvent effect on a volume phase transition of N-isopropylacrylamide
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148. Kozanecki M, Halagan K, Saramak J, Matyjaszewski K (2016) Diffusive properties of water
molecules in neighborhood of polymer chain as seen by Monte-Carlo simulations. Soft
Matter 12:5519–5528
149. Saramak J, Halagan K, Kozanecki M, Polanowski P (2014) Computational studies of
intermolecular interactions in aqueous solutions of poly (vinylmethylether). J Mol Model
20:2529
150. Loozen E, Van Durme K, Nies E, Van Mele B, Berghmans H (2006) The anomalous melting
behavior of water in aqueous PVME solutions. Polymer 47:7034–7042
151. Van Durme K, Loozen E, Nies E, Van Mele B (2005) Phase behavior of poly(vinyl methyl
ether) in deuterium oxide. Macromolecules 38:10234–10243
152. Meeussen F, Bauwens Y, Moerkerke R, Nies E, Berghmans H (2000) Molecular complex
formation in the system poly(vinyl methyl ether)/water. Polymer 41:3737–3743
153. Zhang J, Berge B, Meeussen F, Nies E, Berghmans H, Shen D (2003) influence of the
interactions in aqueous mixtures of poly(vinyl methyl ether) on the crystallization behavior
of water. Macromolecules 36:9145–9153
154. Nies E, Li T, Berghmans H, Heenan RK, King SM (2006) Supper critical solution
temperature phase behavior, composition fluctuations, and complex formation in poly (vinyl
methyl ether)/D 2 O solutions: small-angle neutron-scattering experiments and wertheim
lattice thermodynamic perturbation theory predictions. J Phys Chem B 110:5321–5329
155. Hidaka T, Sugihara S, Maeda Y (2013) Infrared spectroscopic study on LCST behavior of
poly(N,N-bis(2-methoxyethyl)acrylamide). Eur Polym J 49:675–681
156. Ide M, Maeda Y, Kitano H (1997) Effect of hydrophobicity of amino acids on the structure
of water. J Phys Chem B 101:7022–7026
157. Maeda Y, Higuchi T, Ikeda I (2000) Change in hydration state during the coil-globule
transition of aqueous solutions of poly(n-isopropylacrylamide) as evidenced by FTIR
spectroscopy. Langmuir 16:7503–7509
158. Maeda Y, Yamamoto H, Ikeda I (2004) Micro-raman spectroscopic investigation on the
phase separation of poly(vinyl methyl ether)/alcohol/water ternary mixtures. Langmuir
20:7339–7341
159. Maeda Y, Yamauchi H, Kubota T (2009) Confocal micro-Raman and infrared spectroscopic
study on the phase separation of aqueous poly(2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethyl (meth)acrylate)
solutions. Langmuir 25:479–482
160. Maeda Y (2011) hydration of temperature-responsive polymers observed by ir spectroscopy.
Macromol Symp 303:63–70
161. Olejniczak MN, Kozanecki M, Saramak J, Matusiak M, Kadlubowski S, Matyjaszewski K
(2017) Raman spectroscopy study on influence of network architecture on hydration of poly
(2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethyl methacrylate) hydrogels. J Raman Spectr 48:465–473
162. Pastorczak M, Kozanecki M, Ulanski J (2009) Water-polymer interactions in PVME
hydrogels—Raman spectroscopy studies. Polymer 50(19):4535–4542
163. Inomata H, Goto S, Otaka K, Saito S (1992) Effect of additives on phase transition of Nisopropylacrylamide gels. Langmuir 8:687–690
164. Kokufuta E, Zhang YQ, Tanaka Y, Mamada A (1993) Effects of surfactants on the phase
transition of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) gel. Macromolecules 26:1053–1059
165. Van Durme K, Rahier H, Van Mele B (2005) Influence of additives on the thermoresponsive
behavior of polymers in aqueous solution. Macromolecules 38:10155–10163
166. Suzuki Y, Suzuki N, Takasu Y, Nishio I (2007) A study on the structure of water in an
aqueous solution by solvent effect on a volume phase transition of N-isopropylacrylamide
gel and low-frequency Raman spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 107:5890–5897
167. Otake K, Inomata H, Konno M, Saito S (1990) Thermal-analysis of the volume phase
transition with N-isopropylacrylamide gels. Macromolecules 23:283–289
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