Polymers exhibiting lower critical solution temperatures as a route to thermoreversible gelators for healthcare

MT Cook, P Haddow, SB Kirton… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to trigger changes to material properties with external stimuli, so‐called “smart”
behavior, has enabled novel technologies for a wide range of healthcare applications …

Temperature-and light-responsive smart polymer materials

FD Jochum, P Theato - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

Activated ester containing polymers: opportunities and challenges for the design of functional macromolecules

A Das, P Theato - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Rapidly growing demand of functional polymers in various interdisciplinary areas of
research has accentuated the need for modern synthetic tools to develop advanced …

Rational design of thermoresponsive polymers in aqueous solutions: A thermodynamics map

C Zhao, Z Ma, XX Zhu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Temperature variations may induce changes in solution properties for thermoresponsive
polymers, which have drawn much research attention due to their potential applications in …

The light-controlling of temperature-responsivity in stimuli-responsive polymers

A Abdollahi, H Roghani-Mamaqani, B Razavi… - Polymer …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli-responsive polymers are an important class of advanced materials that have lots of
applications in biochemistry, biomedicine, optical memory, and cell labeling. The physical …

Thermoresponsive poly (oligo ethylene glycol acrylates)

G Vancoillie, D Frank, R Hoogenboom - Progress in Polymer Science, 2014 - Elsevier
Thermoresponsive polymers have been the subject of numerous publications and research
topics in the last few decades mostly driven by their easily controllable temperature stimulus …

Polymers with upper critical solution temperature behavior in alcohol/water solvent mixtures

Q Zhang, R Hoogenboom - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Thermoresponsive polymers are of great importance in numerous nanotechnological and
biomedical applications. Compared to polymers that undergo a lower critical solution …

Non-linear PEG-based thermoresponsive polymer systems

N Badi - Progress in Polymer Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Poly (ethylene glycol)(PEG) is one of the most used polymers in medical and
biological applications. Its non-toxicity, non-immunogenicity, biocompatibility and solubility …

Protein phase separation arising from intrinsic disorder: first-principles to bespoke applications

DM Shapiro, M Ney, SA Eghtesadi… - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The phase separation of biomolecules has become the focus of intense research in the past
decade, with a growing body of research implicating this phenomenon in essentially all …

RAFT alcoholic dispersion polymerization with polymerization-induced self-assembly

AB Lowe - Polymer, 2016 - Elsevier
This article reviews the current state of the art with respect to RAFT alcoholic dispersion
polymerization processes that proceed with polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) …