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Controlled Synthesis and Fluorescence Tracking of Highly Uniform PolyN-isopropylacrylamide Microgels
Published on: September 8, 2016
Smart microgels investigated by super-resolution fluorescence microscopy: influence of the monomer structure on the
Oliver Wrede1, Stephan Bergmann, Yvonne Hannappel
1Biomolecular Photonics, Department of Physics, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany. thomas.huser@physik.uni-bielefeld.de.
Abstract:
In a recent publication [Bergmann et al. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 5074-5083] we presented a method which enables to investigate the morphology of microgels by superresolution fluorescence microscopy. Here, this method is applied to three microgel species, based on N-isopropylmethacrylamide (NIPMAM), N-n-propylacrylamide (NNPAM) and N-n-propylmethacrylamide (NNPMAM)) with 5, 7.5 and 10 mol% cross-linker, respectively. Super-resolution microscopy reveals differences of the network morphology of the synthesized particles showing the importance of the monomer structure.
