Thermo-Responsive Gating Characteristics of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Grafted Membranes

Both hydrophilic Nylon‐6 membranes and hydrophobic poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) membranes, with a wide range of grafting yields of poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM), were prepared using the plasma‐graft pore‐filling polymerization method. The effect of the physical and chemical properties of the substrates on the thermo‐responsive gating characteristics of the PNIPAM‐grafted membranes was investigated experimentally. For both the PVDF and...