Effects of thiocyanate anions on switching and structure of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brushes

Zhao Xin-Jun^{1, 2, †}, Gao Zhi-Fu³

Plots of height of grafted PNIPAM brush versus temperature at three different thiocyanate anion concentrations. Molecular weight of polymer chains is M w = 22500 g · mol − 1 , and the surface coverage is σ = 0.5 nm − 2 .