The precipitation temperature (Tpr) value of aqueous poly(dimethylamino‐ethoxyacryloyl‐propylsulphonate) (PDMAPS) solutions decreases with the rise of electric field intensity both in the absence and in the presence of a low molecular salt. This electrostimulated Tpr shift is explained qualitatively by means of the model taking into account both the dominating intermacromolecular dipole‐dipole interaction and the dipole cluster formation.
It has been established that the electroviscosity effect of polyzwitterionic (PZI) aqueous solutions is more considerable than and acts in a direction opposite to that of aqueous polyelectrolyte solutions. Temperature and electric field strength influence the electroviscosity of PZI aqueous solutions in parallel, though the reasons for these effects are quite different. The unusual electroviscosity behaviour of PZI solutions is explained by a 'core-shell' model for the structural organization of PZI macromolecules, suggesting that cluster formation is due to intensive dipoledipole interactions between monomer units of the same or of different macromolecules.
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