AbstractPolyacrylamide and poly(acrylic acid) form a water‐insoluble phase when solutions of the two having concentrations that are not too low are mixed. The insoluble complex contains nearly stoichiometric 1 : 1 ratios of acrylamide and acrylic acid. The phase behavior of the ternary system was studied as a function of the degree of neutralization, α, of poly(acrylic acid). The complex is not formed when α is high. The formation of the complex was studied by measurement of pH increases observed when poly(acrylic acid) was titrated with polyacrylamide to infer a degree of linkage, θ, between the two polymers. A Hill plot of the data showed that the association was cooperative when the molecular weight was
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