%0 Thesis %A Nothdurft, Katja %T Cononsolvency of microgels : equilibrium and dynamics %I RWTH Aachen University %V Dissertation %C Aachen %M RWTH-2021-08634 %P 1 Online-Ressource : Illustrationen %D 2021 %Z Veröffentlicht auf dem Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University %Z Dissertation, RWTH Aachen University, 2021 %X Microgels are three-dimensional, cross-linked polymeric networks swollen by a good solvent. Poly-N-isopropylacrylamide (PNIPAM)-based materials are of ongoing scientific interest due to their unique responsive behavior to external parameters such as temperature and solvent composition. Although PNIPAM microgels are the subject of a variety of application-oriented studies, fundamental aspects about the underlying processes of the responsive behavior are still under discussion. The present work focuses on the sensitivity of PNIPAM to the composition of water-methanol mixtures, the so-called cononsolvency effect. Here, the gels are swollen in either of the pure solvents, whereas water-rich mixtures around 20 mol %F PUB:(DE-HGF)11 %9 Dissertation / PhD Thesis %R 10.18154/RWTH-2021-08634 %U https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/825952