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Stabilizing effect of TMAO on globular PNIPAM states: preferential attraction induces preferential hydration

Published:2016 Issue:46 Volume:18 Page:31459-31470
ISSN:1463-9076
Container-title:Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
language:en
Short-container-title:Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.

Author:

Schroer Martin A.¹²³⁴⁵,Michalowsky Julian⁶⁷⁸³,Fischer Birgit⁹¹⁰¹¹³,Smiatek Jens⁶⁷⁸³,Grübel Gerhard¹²³⁴⁵

Affiliation:

1. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

2. 22607 Hamburg

3. Germany

4. The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI)

5. 22761 Hamburg

6. Institut für Computerphysik

7. Universität Stuttgart

8. 70569 Stuttgart

9. Institut für Physikalische Chemie

10. Universität Hamburg

11. 20146 Hamburg

Abstract

We study the effect of the organic co-solute trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) on the volume phase transition of microgel particles made from poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) using dynamic light scattering (DLS) and all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2016/CP/C6CP05991K

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