Research Article

Thermoresponsive and Redox Behaviors of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Based Block Copolymers Having TEMPO Groups as Their Side Chains

Table 1

Molecular weight data of the resulting copolymers.

Content of TEMPMA unitsa (%) /

Poly(TEMPOMA-ran-NIPAAm) 1648401.26
RAFT reagent terminated PNIPAAm631066001.20
PNIPAAm-block-PTEMPMA 24775069701.17
PNIPAAm-block-PTEMPMA-block-PNIPAAm 3115200139401.35

aDetermined by integrated intensity of 1H NMR spectra. bEstimated by GPC based on polystyrene standard in THF.