Search
Search Results
-
A pH/Temperature-Sensitive s-IPN Based on Poly(vinyl alcohol), Poly(vinyl methyl ether-alt-maleic acid) and Poly(vinyl methyl ether) Prepared by Autoclaving
A novel semi-interpenetrating polymer network (s-IPN) based on the entrapment of a thermosensitive polymer, the poly(vinyl methyl ether) (PVME),...
-
Irradiation assisted synthesis of hydrogel: A Review
Hydrogels are crosslinked hydrophilic systems that can be made up of various routes. Radiation technology is one of the advanced routes explored for...
-
Temperature Dependence of the Colloidal Stability of Neutral Amphiphilic Polymers in Water
Various thermally responsive polymers and their derivatives form colloidally stable nanosized particles upon heating of their aqueous solutions....
-
Smart nanoparticles and microbeads for interventional embolization therapy of liver cancer: state of the art
The process of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization is characterized by the ability to accurately deliver chemotherapy drugs with minimal...
-
Stimuli-Responsive Cellulose-Based Hydrogels
Stimuli-responsive hydrogels can spontaneously change their physical and chemical properties in response to changes in the external environment, and...
-
Recent Advancement of Supramolecules in the Field of Bioimaging
Biological imaging supplies necessary information to diagnose various diseases in the human body. A molecule should meet the requirements like good...
-
Stimuli-Responsive Cellulose Based Hydrogels
Stimuli-responsive hydrogels can spontaneously change their physical and chemical properties in response to changes in the external environment, and...
-
Dynamics of Water in Partially Crystallized Solutions of Glass Forming Materials and Polymers: Implications on the Behavior of Bulk Water
There is no simpler compound than water. It is the most copious substance on Earth and the most important constituent for life, as we know. There is...
-
Hemicellulose-Based Hydrogels and Their Potential Application
The hydrogels obtained from renewable resources have aroused great interests because they are nontoxic, economical, biodegradable, and biocompatible....
-
Vibrational Spectroscopy in Analysis of Stimuli-Responsive Polymer–Water Systems
Over the last years, a rapid development in the material science, which is an answer to an increasing demand for functional, smart systems, has taken...
-
Recent developments in stimuli-responsive poly(ionic liquid)s
The current challenge is to focus on the fundamental understanding of ion-containing polymers. Poly(ionic liquid)s (PILs) belong to an important...
-
FTIR Microspectroscopy of Polymeric Systems
Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is a mature analytical technique employed to examine polymeric materials. With the coupling of an...
-
Progress and Current Status of Materials and Properties of Soft Actuators
In this chapter, brief history and current status of soft actuators made of various materials driven by different stimuli are described with typical...
-
Effects of NaCl, NaOH, and HCl concentration on the cloud point of poly(vinyl methyl ether) in water—electrostatic interactions are inevitably involved in the hydrophobic interaction
It has been known that OH − and/or H + ions are adsorbed at any hydrophobic substance/water interface depending on the medium pH. This strongly...
-
Spectral insights into microdynamics of thermoresponsive polymers from the perspective of two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy
Generalized two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2DCOS) and its derivate technique, perturbation correlation moving window (PCMW), have found...
-
Radiation Engineering of Multifunctional Nanogels
Nanogels combine the favourable properties of hydrogels with those of colloids. They can be soft and conformable, stimuli-responsive and highly...
-
Synthesis of polymeric nano/microgels: a review
Nanogels have become an important topic of interdisciplinary research, especially in the fields of polymer chemistry, physics, materials science,...
-
Radiation Engineering of Multifunctional Nanogels
Nanogels combine the favourable properties of hydrogels with those of colloids. They can be soft and conformable, stimuli-responsive and highly...
-
Thermoresponsive behaviour of terpolymers containing poly(ethylene oxide), poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) and poly(ε-caprolactone) blocks in aqueous solutions: an NMR study
1 H NMR spectroscopy was used for the first time to investigate temperature behaviour of aqueous solutions of nanoparticles (NPs) prepared from linear...
-
Structures and interactions in collapsed hydrogels of thermoresponsive interpenetrating polymer networks
Temperature-induced collapse of hydrogels of interpenetrating polymer networks (IPNs) poly( N -vinylcaprolactam)/poly( N -isopropylacrylamide)...
