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Thermo-reversible sol–gel transition of aqueous solutions of patchy polymers

Indravadan A. Parmar, Aarti S. Shedge, Manohar V. Badiger, Prakash P. Wadgaonkar, Ashish K. Lele

RSC Advances · 2017 · 24 citations · 68 references

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Aqueous solutions of an amphiphilic thermoreversible patchy polymer show abrupt gelation upon cooling by the combined effect of percolation and transition from intra to intermolecular hydrophobic associations.

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