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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Upper Critical Solution Temperature Polymer Phase Transition as a Tool for the Control of Inorganic Salt Crystallization Process.

Marcin Lemanowicz, Esteban Wong Munoz, Anna Mielańczyk, Krzysztof Kiraga, Andrzej Gierczycki

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Marcin LemanowiczDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Process Design, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, ul. ks. M. Strzody 7, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-1679-6221
Esteban Wong MunozLOSENTECH SP. Z O.O., ul. Chabrowa 1, 44-210 Rybnik, Poland.
Anna MielańczykDepartment of Physical Chemistry and Technology of Polymers, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, ul. ks. M. Strzody 9, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-5888-621X
Krzysztof KiragaDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Process Design, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, ul. ks. M. Strzody 7, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.
Andrzej GierczyckiDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Process Design, Faculty of Chemistry, Silesian University of Technology, ul. ks. M. Strzody 7, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.

Funding

Narodowe Centrum Nauki 2017/26/D/ST8/00050
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, the experimental research concerning the impact of the hydrophilic-hydrophobic transition of a polymer exhibiting the Upper Critical Solution Temperature (UCST) onto the crystallization process of inorganic salt is presented. A hypothesis was postulated that under favorable process conditions the sudden change of macromolecules properties and the resulting appearance of insoluble particles will induce the nucleation process of the salt. Since the transition point parameters may be precisely designed, the described mechanism would eliminate the stochastic nature of the crystallization process. Although performed experiments proved that the postulated process mechanism was incorrect, the presence of macromolecules had a significant impact on the crystallization course. The stochastic nature of the process was not eliminated; nevertheless, it seems that a specific point of nucleation was created which was independent of the cloud point temperature (T

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KClnucleationphase transitionpoly(acrylic acid) (PAA)upper critical solution temperature (UCST)

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PMID34576596
PMCPMC8468619

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