Stimuli-responsive hydrogels exhibiting physical or chemical changes in response to
environmental conditions have attracted growing attention for the past few decades. Poly (N …

Controlled routes to prepare polyesters and polycarbonates are of interest due to the
widespread application of these materials and the opportunities provided to prepare new …

Hypoxia is a salient feature observed in most solid malignancies that holds a pivotal role in
angiogenesis, metastasis and resistance to conventional cancer therapeutic approaches …

Stimuli-responsive polymers have been attracting great interest within the scientific
community for several decades. The unique feature to respond to small changes in the …

Over the past 10 years, the grafting of polymers from the surface of cellulose nanocrystals
(CNCs) has gained substantial interest in both academia and industry due to the rapidly …

Oily water treatment has become an urgent need in our daily life because of its harmful
potential to the ecological system. In recent years, functional materials with superwetting or …

Importantly, with the advent of hybridoma and recombinant DNA technologies, the limitations
associated with the extraction and purification of pharmaceutical proteins from animal …

Shape-memory polymers (SMPs) undergo significant macroscopic deformation upon the
application of an external stimulus (eg, heat, electricity, light, magnetism, moisture and even …

CO2 is an ideal trigger for switchable or stimuli-responsive materials because it is benign,
inexpensive, green, abundant, and does not accumulate in the system. Many different CO2 …

Surface resistance to nonspecific protein adsorption, cell/bacterial adhesion, and biofilm
formation is critical for the development and performance of biomedical and analytical …