polymers exhibited higher upper critical solution temperatures than the analogous sulfobetaine polymers. Unlike typical polymer zwitterions, these polymeric sulfothetins possess an inherent reactivity that proved tunable based on their chemical structures. This reactivity makes them amenable to post‐polymerization modification by nucleophilic dealkylation to rapidly access novel substituted polymers
concentration on film thickness and roughness for the different charge densities and discuss the observed trends with regard to charge effects. Furthermore we covalently cross-link the films by an aldol reaction, which preserves the number of charged groups while being easily followed via UV−vis spectroscopy because of the characteristic absorbance band of the coupling product. Cross-linking increases film stability