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Calorimetry is not color-blind. Molecular insights on association processes in surfactant-polymer mixtures derived from calorimetric experiments

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This comment will review and discuss recent results obtained with the use of calorimetry in assessing molecular information from complex phenomena such as association in surfactant/polymer mixtures. These examples were selected to support the view that it is possible to ally the great sensitivity of modern calorimeters with carefully planned experiments and, sometimes, ancillary techniques in order to derive detailed information on molecular interactions.

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Loh, W., Brinatti, C. Calorimetry is not color-blind. Molecular insights on association processes in surfactant-polymer mixtures derived from calorimetric experiments. Sci. China Chem. 54, 2024–2027 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-011-4424-6

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