Water swelling, brine soluble imidazole based zwitterionic polymers--synthesis and study of reversible UCST behaviour and gel-sol transitions.
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.
Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 1 Pesek Road, Jurong Island, Singapore 627833. vivek_vasantha@ices.a-star.edu.sg aparthiban@ices.a-star.edu.sg.
Vivek Arjunan
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Vasantha
Satyasankar
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Jana
Anbanandam
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Parthiban
Julius G
JG
Vancso