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Poly(N-isopropyl-acrylamide) (PNIPAM) is a paradigm thermally sensitive polymer, which has a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of ~32 ℃ in water.Herein by AFM-based single-molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS), we measured the single-chain elasticity of PNIPAM across the LCST in water.