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The dynamic mechanical behaviour of 4% aqueous solutions and networks of poly (N, N-diethylacrylamide) and copolymers of diethylacrylamide with sodium methacrylate (MNa) (molar ratio xMNA=0–0.05) swollen in water was measured in the temperature range 20–80 °C. With increasing temperature, at Tc polymer chains collapse from random coil to more compact globular conformations. While in the region of coil conformations (T > Tc) the mechanical behaviour of solutions has a liquid-like character (the loss modulus G″ is higher than the storage modulus G′ for a constant frequency ω=1 Hz), in the region of globular conformations (T > Tc) a heterogeneous physical network is built in solutions, and the mechanical behaviour has a solid-like character (G′ > G″). In networks the collapse is reflected in an increase of storage modulus G′; the magnitude of this increase decreases with ionization. The dependence of the loss modulus G″ on the temperature of solutions and networks allows us to conclude that the magnitude of losses in the collapsed state is affected rather by xMNa (the modulus G″ increases with increasing ionization) than by the heterogeneous structure of the samples.
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Hrouz, J., Ilavský, M. Phase transition in swollen gels. Polymer Bulletin 22, 271–276 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00282852
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