Yan Xia

TL;DR: In this paper, room temperature atom transfer radical polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM) carried out in 2-propanol (i-PrOH) and tert-butyl alcohol (t-BuOH) resulted in PnIPAMs with polydispersities.

TL;DR: Efficient, one-pot preparation of synthetically challenging, high molecular weight (MW), narrowly dispersed brush block copolymers and randomCopolymers in high conversions was achieved by ring-opening metathesis (co)polymerization (ROMP) of various macromonomers (MMs) using the highly active, fast-initiating ruthenium olefin meetingathesis catalyst.

TL;DR: In this article, four series of narrow-disperse poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) with well-controlled molecular weights and with end groups of varying hydrophobicity were synthesized by room temperature atom tracer.

TL;DR: This study presents a new, broadly adaptable materials platform for mimicking key ECM features of viscoelasticity and fibrillarity in hydrogels for 3D cell culture and sheds light on how these mechanical and structural cues regulate cell behavior.

TL;DR: A new organic nano fluorophore with high quantum yield is described and used for in vivo imaging in the NIR-II window and enables one-photon based, three-dimensional confocal imaging of vasculatures in fixed mouse brain tissue with high spatial resolution.