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Novel Approach to Synthesizing Hydrophobically Associating Copolymer Using Template Copolymerization: The Synthesis and Behaviors of Acrylamide and 4-(ω-Propenoyloxyethoxy) Benzoic Acid Copolymer Yu Xi Zhang, Fei Peng Wu,* Miao Zhen Li, and Er Jian Wang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China ReceiVed: August 4, 2005; In Final Form: September 15, 2005
Hydrophobically associating copolymers of acrylamide (AM) with a small amount of 4-(ω-propenoyloxyethoxy) benzoic acid (PEBA,
