title: Disclosing the nature of thermo-responsiveness of poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide)-based polymeric micelles: aggregation or fusion?
abstract: The apparent size increase of poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) (PNIPAM)-based polymeric micelles upon heating was usually ascribed to their volume growth or aggregation in aqueous solution. Herein we designed a photo-cross-linkable PNIPAM-based copolymer and proposed another thermo-responsive behaviour - fusion, which is disclosed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) after in situ fixing morphologies at desired temperatures.
authors.affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials of Ministry of Education, Tongji University, 4800 Caoan Road, Shanghai, 201804, China. jzdu@tongji.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Fangyingkai
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jianzhong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Du