Electric Literature of Br2CuIn 2019 ,《Influence of molecular weight on PNIPAM brush modified colloidal silica particles》 appeared in Soft Matter. The author of the article were Humphreys, Ben A.; Prescott, Stuart W.; Murdoch, Timothy J.; Nelson, Andrew; Gilbert, Elliot P.; Webber, Grant B.; Wanless, Erica J.. The article conveys some information:
The effect of mol. weight and temperature on the phase transition and internal structure of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brush modified colloidal silica particles was investigated using dynamic light scattering (DLS) and small angle neutron scattering (SANS) between 15 and 45°C. Dry particle anal. utilizing transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier-transform IR spectroscopy (FTIR) and thermogravimetric anal. (TGA) all confirmed the thickness of the polymer brush shell increased as a function of polymerization time. Hydrodynamic diameter and electrophoretic mobility results revealed that the brush modified particles transitioned from swollen shells to a collapsed conformation between 15 and 35°C. The dispersions were electrosterically stabilized over the entire temperature range investigated, with minimal thermal hysteresis recorded. Modeling of the hydrodynamic diameter enabled the calculation of a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) which increased as a function of brush thickness. The internal structure determined via SANS showed a swollen brush at low temperatures (18 and 25°C) which decayed radially away from the substrate, while a collapsed block-like conformation with 60% polymer volume fraction was present at 40°C. Radial phase separation was evident at intermediate temperatures (30 and 32.5°C) with the lower mol. weight sample having a greater volume fraction of polymer in the dense inner region at these temperatures In addition to this study using Cupric bromide, there are many other studies that have used Cupric bromide(cas: 7789-45-9Electric Literature of Br2Cu) was used in this study.
Some reported applications of Cupric bromide(cas: 7789-45-9) are: catalyst in cross coupling reactions; co-catalyst in Sonogashira coupling; lewis acid in enantioselective addition of alkynes.Electric Literature of Br2Cu
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Copper catalysis in organic synthesis – NCBI,
Special Issue “Fundamentals and Applications of Copper-Based Catalysts”