Table 3 Characteristics of the thermo-responsive polymers
Polymers | Monomers | Polymerization medium | Yield (%) | LCST (°C) | Recover (%) | Mv (104) | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
P N | NIPA | Benzene | 96.8 | 32.5 | 98.5 | 5.4 | This study |
P VBAm | VCL/BMA/Am (5:0.5:0.2) | Benzene | 92.8 | 40.5 | 94.7 | 8.9 | This study |
P NBAa | NIPA:BMA:Aa (3.0:0.12:0.05) | Benzene | 90.8 | 25.5 | 98.2 | 9.7 | Hou and Cao (2014) |
P NDB | NIPA:DMAEMA:BMA(3.0:0.6:0.4) | THF | 88.6 | 31.3 | 96.1 | 5.6 | Hou and Cao (2014) |
P N | NIPA | Water | 93.2 | 33.5 | 98.3 | 12 | Xu et al. (2016) |
P VBAm | VCL/BMA/Am (5:0.5:0.3) | Water | 89.8 | 45.0 | 96.6 | 2.8 | Xu et al. (2016) |
P NE | NIPA:EMA (3.0:0.05) | Water | 85.8 | 28.7 | 97.5 | 19 | Hou et al. (2014) |
P VAm | VCL/Am (3.0:0.4) | Methanol | 92.6 | 35.6 | 96.3 | 2.8 | Hou et al. (2014) |
EO50PO50 | EO:PO(0.5:0.5) | / | / | 50.0 | 95.0 | 0.39 | Persson et al. (2000) |
HM-EOPO | EO:PO(0.66:0.14/C14H29 | / | / | 14.0 | 97.5 | 0.8 | Persson et al. (1999) |
L44 | EOPOEO (EO = 40%) | / | / | 65.0 | 98.5 | 0.22 | Wang et al. (2015) |
MAH-CD–NIPA | NIPA:MAH-CD (3.5:5) | Water | 46.7 | 42.0 | / | / | Tan et al. (2017) |
Poly-VI-VCL | VCL:VI (4.8:0.2) | Iso-propanol | / | 37 | / | / | Pietruszka et al. (2000) |