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Phase behavior of aqueous solutions of copolymers of N,N'-diisopropylfumaramide and N-isopropylacrylamide: effect of the density of side chains.

This letter describes the phase behavior of aqueous solutions of an N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM) homopolymer and copolymers of N,N'-diisopropylfumaramide (DIPFAM) and NIPAM as studied by transmittance measurements, infrared spectroscopy, and differential scanning calorimetry to reveal the effect of the density of N-isopropylamide side chain upon the phase behavior. The clouding-point and clearing-point temperatures decreased with increasing the mole fraction of DIPFAM (x(D)). It was noteworthy that only an extra side chain per ca. 7 NIPAM units had a remarkable effect on the phase behavior; the interactions between side chains were stronger, the intrapolymer contraction was less favorable, and the cooperativity of phase transition was lower at x(D) = 0.15 presumably because of the steric hindrance of dense side chains.