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Kosmotropic effect leads to LCST decrease in thermoresponsive polymer solutions
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We study the phenomena of decrease in lower critical solution temperature (LCST) with addition of kosmotropic (order-making) cosolvents in thermoresponsive polymer solutions. A combination of explicit solvent coarse-grained simulations and mean-field theory has been employed. The polymer-solvent LCST behavior in the theoretical models has been incorporated through the Kolomeisky-Widom solvophobic potential. Our results illustrate how the decrease in the LCST can be achieved by the reduction in the bulk solvent energy with the addition of cosolvent. It is shown that this effect of cosolvent is weaker with an increase in polymer hydrophilicity which can explain the absence of a LCST decrease in poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide), water, and methanol systems. The coarse-grained nature of the models indicates that a mean energetic representation of the system is sufficient to understand the phenomena of LCST decrease. Published by AIP Publishing.
Keywords:
TO-COIL TRANSITION
CRITICAL SOLUTION TEMPERATURE
SIDE-CHAIN ORGANIZATION
PHASE-TRANSITION
MIXED-SOLVENTS
N-ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE
AQUEOUS-SOLUTIONS
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES
PREFERENTIAL ADSORPTION
HOMOPOLYMER CHAIN
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