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We propose to adopt a non-isothermal and colloid type cluster–cluster aggregation stochastic model aimed at comprehending the temperature driven and polymer swelling accompanying volume expansion encountered in microgels. The nonequilibrium nature of the process is captured by describing expansion characteristics with simplified power laws, indicating the scalability of properties with time and temperature. Additionally, molecular dynamics simulations of the presented mechanism for a chosen biopolymer have been performed. This can be of interest for experimenters working in the field of nonequilibrium phase transitions, and fairly prospectively, within the area of thermal phonon-involving technology. In these areas, scanning the system’s temperature, or sometimes tuning similar dissipation-addressing physical factors, such as pH, appears to be a fairly pivotal examination case.
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Gadomski, A., Kruszewska, N. & Bełdowski, P. Temperature dependent volume expansion of microgel in nonequilibria. Eur. Phys. J. B 91, 237 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2018-90408-x
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