Controlling properties of thermogels by tuning critical solution behaviour of ternary copolymers

AAA Smith, CL Maikawa, HL Hernandez… - Polymer Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermoresponsive hydrogel materials show promise as biomaterials as their properties can
be widely tuned to fit engineering requirements for an array of important applications. Here …

“Off-the-shelf” thermoresponsive hydrogel design: tuning hydrogel properties by mixing precursor polymers with different lower-critical solution temperatures

E Bakaic, NMB Smeets, H Dorrington, T Hoare - RSC Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
“Off the shelf design” principles are applied to fabricate injectable poly (oligoethylene glycol
methacrylate)(POEGMA) hydrogels with well-defined thermal phase transitions by mixing …

Thermoresponsive block copolymers of increasing architecture complexity: a review on structure–property relationships

AP Constantinou, L Wang, S Wang, TK Georgiou - Polymer Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Thermogels are an exciting class of stimuli responsive materials with many promising
applications ranging from the medical field to additive manufacturing. This review focuses on …

Thermoresponsive tetrablock terpolymers: effect of architecture and composition on gelling behavior

AP Constantinou, NF Sam-Soon, DR Carroll… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Thermoresponsive gels are an exciting class of materials with many bioapplications, like
tissue engineering and drug delivery, but they are also used in formulation industry and 3-D …

End block design modulates the assembly and mechanics of thermoresponsive, dual-associative protein hydrogels

MJ Glassman, BD Olsen - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
Polymers exhibiting lower critical solution behavior in water have found broad use as
thermoresponsive moieties in soft materials, particularly in biomedical applications for …

Branched PCL-based thermogelling copolymers: controlling polymer architecture to tune drug release profiles

Q Lin, V Ow, YJ Boo, VTA Teo, JHM Wong… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Temperature-responsive hydrogels, or thermogels, are a unique class of biomaterials that
show facile and spontaneous transition from solution to gel when warmed. Their high …

Thermoresponsive properties of polymer hydrogels induced by copolymerization of hydrophilic and hydrophobic monomers: comprehensive study of monomer …

S Ida, D Nishisako, A Fujiseki, S Kanaoka - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In order to raise the possibility of the practical use of thermoresponsive hydrogels in various
fields, it is imperative to achieve on-demand control of responsive behavior especially by …

Precisely tunable sol–gel transition temperature by blending thermoresponsive ABC triblock terpolymers

M Onoda, T Ueki, R Tamate, AM Akimoto… - ACS Macro …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Here, we report a facile methodology to control the sol–gel transition temperature (T gel) of a
physically cross-linked hydrogel by blending two kinds of ABC triblock terpolymers. Well …

Thermoresponsive polymers: Insights into decisive hydrogel characteristics, mechanisms of gelation, and promising biomedical applications

MR Matanović, J Kristl, PA Grabnar - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2014 - Elsevier
Thermally induced gelling systems have gained enormous attention over the last decade.
They consist of hydrophilic homopolymers or block copolymers in water that present a sol at …

Hydrogels with dual thermoresponsive mechanical performance

H Guo, C Mussault, A Marcellan… - Macromolecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Dual thermoresponsive chemical hydrogels, combining poly (N‐isopropylacrylamide) side‐
chains within a poly (N‐acryloylglycinamide) network, are designed following a simple and …