Issue 1, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Water swelling, brine soluble imidazole based zwitterionic polymers – synthesis and study of reversible UCST behaviour and gel–sol transitions†

Vivek Arjunan Vasantha,*a   Satyasankar Jana,a   Anbanandam Parthiban*a  and  Julius G. Vancsoab  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 1 Pesek Road, Jurong Island, Singapore 627833
E-mail: vivek_vasantha@ices.a-star.edu.sg, aparthiban@ices.a-star.edu.sg

b MESA+ Research Institute for Nanotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, P. O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands

Abstract

New vinylbenzene substituted imidazole based zwitterionic polymers with unique characteristics like swelling in water and solubility in concentrated brine solution in which they exhibited a reversible upper critical solution temperature (UCST) and gel–sol transitions are reported herein.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC44407D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Jun 2013
Accepted
17 Jul 2013
First published
18 Jul 2013

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 46-48

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Water swelling, brine soluble imidazole based zwitterionic polymers – synthesis and study of reversible UCST behaviour and gel–sol transitions

V. A. Vasantha, S. Jana, A. Parthiban and J. G. Vancso, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 46 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC44407D

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