Revisiting the salt-triggered self-assembly in very hydrophilic triblock copolymer Pluronic® F88 using multitechnique approach

• Published in: Colloid and polymer science Vol. 299; no. 7; pp. 1113 - 1126
• Main Authors: Patel, Dhruvi, Jana, Rabindranath, Lin, Min-Hsuan, Kuperkar, Ketan, Seth, Debabrata, Chen, Li-Jen, Bahadur, Pratap
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.07.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Block copolymers; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Chemistry; Chemistry and Materials Science; Coils; Complex Fluids and Microfluidics; Dehydration; Diameters; Fluorescence; Food Science; Infrared spectroscopy; Micelles; Nanotechnology and Microengineering; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Original Contribution; Phase transitions; Photon correlation spectroscopy; Physical Chemistry; Polymer Sciences; Potassium chloride; Saline water; Salting; Scattering; Self-assembly; Soft and Granular Matter; Solubilization; Spectrum analysis; Dye solubilization; Micelle behavior; Electrolyte; Scattering; Calorimetry; Block copolymer; Spectral analysis

An insight scrutiny into the micellization behavior of a linear triblock copolymer Pluronic® F88 in aqueous potassium chloride (KCl) solutions is put forth through various physicochemical techniques, viz. cloud point, tensiometric, microcalorimetry, fluorescence life-time decay, spectral, and scatte...