title: Phase transition parameters of potential thermosensitive drug release systems based on polymers of N-alkylmethacrylamides.
abstract: The phase separation and its thermohysteresis in dilute aqueous solutions of polymeric components of potential drug release systems (homopolymers and copolymers of N-isopropylacrylamide, N-isopropylmethacrylamide, N-propylmethacrylamide, N-sec-butylmethacrylamide, and N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide) was studied, both on heating and cooling. Plots of light transmittance vs temperature were constructed and the parameters characterizing them were correlated with polymer structures. Qualitative information was obtained on the rate of formation of the concentrated phase on heating and its disappearance on cooling. Attention has been drawn to the improper identification of the cloud-point temperature, measured at an arbitrary concentration, with the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) as is frequently found in papers dealing with biomedical applications of thermosensitive polymers.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chytrý
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Netopilík
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bohdanecký
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ulbrich
mesh_terms: D000178:Acrylamides / Q000737:chemistry*; D000180:Acrylic Resins / Q000737:chemistry*; D001843:Bone Cements / Q000737:chemistry; D003080:Cold Temperature; D004337:Drug Carriers / Q000737:chemistry*; D006358:Hot Temperature; D008689:Methacrylates / Q000737:chemistry; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000178:Acrylamides; D000180:Acrylic Resins; D001843:Bone Cements; D004337:Drug Carriers; D008689:Methacrylates; D011108:Polymers; C052970:poly-N-isopropylacrylamide; C032802:hydroxypropyl methacrylate