Free volume and swelling in thin films of poly(n-isopropylacrylamide) end-capped with n-butyltrithiocarbonate
- The free volume in thin films of poly(N-isopropylacrylamid) end-capped with n-butyltrio-carbonate (nbc-PNIPAM) is probed with positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS). The PALS measurements are performed as function of energy to obtain depth profiles of the free volume of nbc-PNIPAM films. The range of nbc-PNIPAM films with thicknesses from 40 to 200 nm is focused. With decreasing film thickness the free volume increases in good agreement with an increase in the maximum swelling capability of the nbc-PNIPAM films. Thus in thin hydrogel films the sorption and swelling behavior is governed by free volume.
| Author details: | Stephan Harms, Klaus Raetzke, Franz Faupel, Werner Egger, Lori Boyd de Ravello, André LaschewskyORCiDGND, Weinan Wang, Peter Müller-Buschbaum |
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| URL: | http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/10003270 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.201000067 |
| ISSN: | 1022-1336 |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2010 |
| Publication year: | 2010 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/25 |
| Source: | Macromolecular rapid communications. - ISSN 1022-1336. - 31 (2010), 15, S. 1364 - 1367 |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Chemie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
