Table III.

Temperature dependent particle sizes determined by DLS for the pS-co-NIPAM microgel series and two pNIPAM samples of different BIS crosslinking (-A, 7 mol% BIS, -B, 2 mol% BIS).

Microgel Sample	Diameter (nm) (DLS at T= 10 °C)	Diameter (nm) (DLS, T = 60 °C)	Volume swelling ratio (α)
pS-co-NIPAM-1	220 ± 22	221 ± 6	N/A
pS-co-NIPAM-2	243 ± 26	234 ± 19	N/A
pS-co-NIPAM-3	235 ± 18	234 ± 23	N/A
pS-co-NIPAM-4	342 ± 10	222 ± 3	3.67 ± 0.17
pS-co-NIPAM-5	402 ± 12	248 ± 7	4.26 ± 0.06
pNIPAM-A	525 ± 14	268 ± 10	7.52 ± 0.26
pNIPAM-B	627 ± 12	252 ± 13	15.40 ± 0.84