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SUBMITTER: Carrick BR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8399651 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carrick Brian R BR Seitzinger Claire L CL Lodge Timothy P TP
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20210811 16
Polymer/ionic liquid systems are being increasingly explored, yet those exhibiting lower critical solution temperature (LCST) phase behavior remain poorly understood. Poly(benzyl methacrylate) in certain ionic liquids constitute unusual LCST systems, in that the second virial coefficient (<i>A</i><sub>2</sub>) in dilute solutions has recently been shown to be positive, indicative of good solvent behavior, even above phase separation temperatures, where <i>A</i><sub>2</sub> < 0 is expected. In th ...[more]