Synthetic polymers are attracting great attention in the last decades for their use in the
biomedical field as nanovectors for controlled drug delivery, hydrogels and scaffolds …

Abstract In 1968, Heskins and Guillet published the first systematic study of the phase
diagram of poly (N‐isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM), at the time a “young polymer” first …

Significant advances in biomaterials, stem cell biology, and microscale technologies have
enabled the fabrication of biologically relevant tissues and organs. Such tissues and organs …

Thermoresponsive polymers constitute an important class of materials for biomedical
application due to their thermally reversible coil-to-globule transition which can be exploited …

Thorough understanding of how to control cell behaviors including cell adhesion,
orientation, migration and differentiation on an artificial surface is critical in materials and life …

Understanding and controlling interfaces has proven to be key to a very wide range of
applications, from optical and electronic materials 1, 2 to energy storage and production, 3 …

Smart hydrogels, or stimuli-responsive hydrogels, are three-dimensional networks
composed of crosslinked hydrophilic polymer chains that are able to dramatically change …

Modern biomedical technologies predict the application of materials and devices that not
only can comply effectively with specific requirements, but also enable remote control of their …

Novel poly (N‐isopropylacrylamide)‐clay (PNIPAM‐clay) nanocomposite (NC) hydrogels
with both excellent responsive bending and elastic properties are developed as temperature …

The influence of different surface properties holding to a modification of the substrate
towards hydrophobic or superhydrophobic behavior was reviewed in this paper. Cell …