Data supporting "Anomalous enhanced swelling of charged copolymer gels"

Data supporting the publication "Anomalous enhanced swelling of charged copolymer gels" in Polymer (vol. 317, 127934, published January 2025). Experimental data includes: Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC ) data. Objective: Determination of the glass transition temperature of gels with different SPMA:HEMA ratios. Files: metadata (xls), raw data (txt), glass transition temperatures (xls).Fourier-transform Infrared spectroscopy (FTIR ) spectra. Objective: Determination chemical content of gels with different SPMA:HEMA ratios. Files: metadata (xls), raw data (txt)Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (H-NMR ) spectra. Objective: Estimation reactivity ratios of SPMA and HEMA monomers. Files: metadata (xls), raw data (Mnova + txt files)Swelling data of various gels with different SPMA:HEMA ratios. Objective: Determine trend in swelling of gels with different co-polymer compositions. Files: metadata + swelling data (xls-file) Python scripts include:"Flory Rehner" - Script that utilizes the Flory Rehner network to calculate osmotic pressure contributions (in txt)"Effective Charge Density" - Script that calculates effect charges on polyelectrolyte chains (in txt)"R1R2 Determination" - Script used to calculate reactivity ratios in SPMA and HEMA co-polymerization (in txt)"Chain Configuration" Script used to calculate and visualize the p(SPMA-co-HEMA) copolymer architecture (in txt)