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China Surfactant Detergent & Cosmetics ›› 2021, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (9): 852-858.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-1803.2021.09.007

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Preparation and tunable structural color of dual-responsive nanogels

Ding Hanxue,Li Xueting,Lu Xihua()   

  1. College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
  • Received:2020-12-24 Revised:2021-08-25 Online:2021-09-22 Published:2021-09-23
  • Contact: Xihua Lu E-mail:luxihua@dhu.edu.cn

Abstract:

A weakly acidic monomer L-N-acryloyl phenylalanine (APhe) was synthesized. Poly(NIPA-co-APhe) copolymer nanogels were synthesized by emulsion precipitation copolymerization of the monomer Aphe with the thermosensitive monomer N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPA). The structure and morphology of the nanogels prepared were characterized by IR and TEM, respectively. The results show that the particles of nanogels are spherical and monodispersed. The nanogels were also analyzed by particle size analyzer. It is found that the nanogels have good temperature/pH sensitivities. That is, the particle size is gradually decreased with the increase of temperature, and the particle size is first increased and then decreased with the increase of pH. The structural color was characterized by optical fiber spectrometer. It is found that the structural color of the nanogels can be adjusted by varying the monomer ratio and pH value. That is, the particle size is gradually increased with the increase of molar fraction of monomer APhe, and the color is gradually changed from green to blue as the compression degree of the particles is increased. Furthermore, it is important to observe that the Poly(NIPA-co-APhe) nanogels even keep the structural color in the case of undergoing a temperature-induced phase transition.

Key words: nanogel, thermosensitive, pH sensitive, structural color

CLC Number: 

  • TQ427.2