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SUBMITTER: Scotti A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6441029 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scotti A A Bochenek S S Brugnoni M M Fernandez-Rodriguez M A MA Schulte M F MF Houston J E JE Gelissen A P H APH Potemkin I I II Isa L L Richtering W W
Nature communications 20190329 1
Microgels are solvent-swollen nano- and microparticles that show prevalent colloidal-like behavior despite their polymeric nature. Here we study ultra-low crosslinked poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgels (ULC), which can behave like colloids or flexible polymers depending on dimensionality, compression or other external stimuli. Small-angle neutron scattering shows that the structure of the ULC microgels in bulk aqueous solution is characterized by a density profile that decays smoothly from th ...[more]