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Published in final edited form as: Macromolecules. 2012 Oct 10;45(20):8401–8411. doi: 10.1021/ma301687b

Table 2.

Percentual change Δd = 100·(d_wet-d_orig)/d_orig of the average particle diameter in aqueous environment d_wet compared to the particle diameter without any water treatment d_orig. Values are based on the statistics acquired from the SEM micrographs.

	T = 20 °C		T = 40 °C
Sample code	Δd, 1 min	Δd, 4 h	Δd, 1 min	Δd, 4 h
PN77.118K	6 ± 5	18 ± 5	-1 ± 5	6 ± 4
PN61.106K	51 ± 4	72 ± 5	2 ± 3	-16 ± 2
PN43.65K	-1 ± 2	-21 ± 2	10 ± 3	2 ± 3