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. 2018 Jun 13;34(27):8031–8041. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b01289

Table 3. Polymer Brush Thickness for Swollen and Collapsed States Obtained by the Fits of z-Temperature Dependences with Eq 12.

sample Mn [g mol–1] zswollen [nm]a zcollapsed [nm]a
NIPAm-PNIPAm-SH brushes onto AuNRs 12 500 4.6 2.0
  45 000 8.3 4.6
Bn-PNIPAm-SH brushes onto AuNRs 10 000 3.2 1.1
  30 000 8.7 0.4
a

The estimated errors are of the order of 10%.