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From 4th June 2012 to 15th June 2012 in the Institute gallery of IMC AS CR, an exhibition P.O.L. E. art group:reconstruction of one exhibition from 1972 -1989 takes place
76 PMM Conference Polymers in Medicine is to be held in Prague on 1 - 5 July 2012. Career in Polymers 2012 workshop to take place before the conference.
MoDeSt 2012 conference is to be held in Prague from 2 to 6 September 2012
| Supervisor (Consultant) | Jiří Dybal, PhD |
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| Topic | Study of the association mechanisms in thermosensitive polymers by the methods of Raman and infrared spectroscopy |
| Annotation | Pluronics (poloxamers) are a group of non-ionic macromolecular surfactants and they are tri-block copolymers of poly(ethylene oxide)-poly(propylene oxide)-poly(ethylene oxide), which are used in drug delivery, emulsification, detergency and in many other applications. Pluronics are also thermoresponsive: They are soluble in aqueous media at low temperatures, but with the increase of temperature above certain critical temperature, desolvation of the macromolecular chain takes place. The desolvation results in the formation of micelles, which are thermodynamically stable polymolecular aggregates. Some Pluronics can, in more concentrated aqueous solutions, transform from viscous solution into firm gel. Pluronic solutions can be combined with cellulose derivates in order to optimize the gelation process or to prepare materials with novel properties. These systems will be studied by the means of vibrational (infrared and Raman) spectroscopy and, as the case maybe, by computational (quantum mechanical) methods. |
Center BIOPOL
Center BIOpolymer POstdoctoral Laboratory and educational center arises with finantial support from EU funds, operational programme Education for Competitiveness
Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry AS CR, v.v.i.
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CZ-162 06 Praha 6
Czech Republic
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