In various industrial fields, water soluble polymers are commonly used as thickening agents
to control the reology of aqueous fluids. Nevertheless, their properties are weakened as the …

A thermally induced associative polymer was developed by grafting lower critical solution
temperature side chains onto a water-soluble backbone. Based upon the thermodynamic …

A new kind of water-soluble polymer was obtained by grafting side chains, characterized by
a phase separation on heating (Lower Critical Solution Temperature LCST), on a …

Hydrophobically associating water-soluble polymers are essentially hydrophilic polymer
chains containing a small number of strongly hydrophobic groups, distributed or located at …

Copolymers composed of acrylamide (AM), N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM), and a
hydrophobic monomer, either N, N-dihexylacrylamide (DHAM) or N, N-dioctylacrylamide …

Self-assembling properties of poly (sodium acrylate) grafted with dodecyl [C12], PAAgC12,
or poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)[PNIPA] side chains, PAAgPNIPA, were studied in …

Responsive thickeners have been obtained by grafting onto poly (sodium acrylate)[PAA]
macromolecular stickers characterized by a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) in …

In this paper, the linear and nonlinear rheological behavior of semidilute aqueous solutions
of a recently synthesized thermoassociative graft copolymer was investigated, as a function …

A novel thermo-thickening hydrophilic copolymer (CGBA) was prepared by free-radical
copolymerization of sodium 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid (NaAMPS) with a …

Physical gelation upon heating is reviewed in aqueous polymer solutions. Among the
different systems, which basically rely on reversible associations between non-polar groups …