Hui Fu
Texas A&M University
7 Papers
69 Citations
Hui Fu is an academic researcher from Texas A&M University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Solubility & Lower critical solution temperature. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications.
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Papers
Reversible Changes in Solution pH Resulting from Changes in Thermoresponsive Polymer Solubility
Yanfei Yang,Alexander J. Mijalis,Hui Fu,Cynthia Agosto,Kristine J. Tan,James D. Batteas,David E. Bergbreiter +6 more
TL;DR: Pendant groups on polymers that have lower-critical solution temperature (LCST) properties experience a water-like environment below theLCST where the polymer is soluble but are less hydrated above the LCST when the polymer phase separates from solution, which can change the bulk solution pH.
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Parallel effects of cations on PNIPAM graft wettability and PNIPAM solubility.
TL;DR: The results showed that the effects of varying cations on surface wettability are as large as the results of varying anion identity and concentration, and the Theta(a) or LCST versus cation activity/concentration could be readily grouped by charge.
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Designing surfaces with wettability that varies in response to solute identity and concentration.
TL;DR: Surfaces with solute responsive wettability can be prepared by covalent layer-by-layer assembly of PNIPAM-c-PNASI with 10 and 100 nm diameter aminated silica nanoparticles and are found to exhibit reversible changes in surface wetting in response to solute anion identity and concentration.
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Redox-controlled ‘smart’ polyacrylamide solubility
TL;DR: In this paper, a copolymer containing N-isopropyl and 4-N-amino groups undergo reversible redox behavior leading to LCST changes and Oxidation (NaOCl/H2O) or reduction (ascorbic acid) changes the copolymers' LCST from 18 °C to 35-40 °C.
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Thermodynamic cloud point assays
David E. Bergbreiter,Hui Fu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used automated melting point apparatus to obtain a corrected cloud point for polymers that have a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) and provided information about the effects of varying heating rates on LCSTs and similar stimuli-responsive phase separation behavior.
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