Study of cationic N-isopropylacrylamide-styrene copolymer latex particles using fluorescent probes

Citation
Ems. Castanheira et al., Study of cationic N-isopropylacrylamide-styrene copolymer latex particles using fluorescent probes, LANGMUIR, 15(20), 1999, pp. 6712-6717
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Physical Chemistry/Chemical Physics
Journal title
LANGMUIR
ISSN journal
07437463 → ACNP
Volume
15
Issue
20
Year of publication
1999
Pages
6712 - 6717
Database
ISI
SICI code
0743-7463(19990928)15:20<6712:SOCNCL>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Monodisperse cationically charged core-shell poly[styrene[N-isopropylacryla mide] latexes, differing in their shell structure, were studied at temperat ures around the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of polyCN-isopro pylacrylamide]. Near the LCST, a transition on the latex dimensions was obs erved by quasi-elastic light scattering measurements. The same transition c ould also be detected using the intensity ratio of the pyrene fluorescence vibronic bands, I-1/I-13, and the excimer to monomer fluorescence intensity ratio of 1,10-bis(1-pyrenyl)decane. The fluorescence spectra and decay cur ve measurements of 1,10-bis( 1-pyrenyl)decane provided a better understandi ng of both the hydrophilic-hydrophobic variation and the conformational cha nges occurring in the poly[N-isopropylacrylamide] shell of the latex partic les upon temperature variation.