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Recent advances and challenges in designing stimuli-responsive polymers
Fang Liu,Marek W. Urban +1 more
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In this article, a review examines physico-chemical requirements necessary to achieve stimuli-responsiveness in heterogeneous polymer networks as well as discusses recent developments and future trends while individual structural components of polymeric networks are responsible for localized chainresponsiveness, desirable spatial and energetic network properties are necessary for collective and orchestrated responsiveness to external or internal stimuli.About:
This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 866 citations till now.read more
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Light-triggered release of photocaged therapeutics - Where are we now?
TL;DR: A deep overview on the progress achieved in the design, fabrication as well as current and possible future applications in therapeutics of photocaged compounds is provided, so that novel formulations for biomedical field can be designed.
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Autonomous Intestine-Like Motion of Tubular Self-Oscillating Gel
Yusuke Shiraki,Ryo Yoshida +1 more
TL;DR: This work has developed a novel “self-oscillating” polymer gel that exhibits autonomous mechanical oscillation without an external control in a completely closed solution and aims to convert the chemical oscillation of the BZ reaction into a mechanical change in gels and generate an autonomous swelling–deswelling oscillation under non-oscillary outer conditions.
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pH-responsive layer-by-layer nanoshells for direct regulation of cell activity.
Irina Drachuk,Olga Shchepelina,Milana Lisunova,Svetlana Harbaugh,Nancy Kelley-Loughnane,Morley O. Stone,Vladimir V. Tsukruk +6 more
TL;DR: The variation in surface charges caused by deprotonation/protonation of carboxylic groups in the nanoshells controlled cell growth and cell function, which can be utilized for external chemical control of cell-based biosensors.
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Design of Whey Protein Nanostructures for Incorporation and Release of Nutraceutical Compounds in Food
Óscar L. Ramos,Ricardo Nuno Correia Pereira,Artur J. Martins,Rui Miguel Martins Rodrigues,Clara Fuciños,José A. Teixeira,Lorenzo Pastrana,F. Xavier Malcata,António A. Vicente +8 more
TL;DR: This review intends to discuss the latest understandings of nanoscale phenomena of whey protein denaturation and aggregation that may contribute for the design of protein nanostructures.
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4D printing: Fundamentals, materials, applications and challenges
TL;DR: The fundamentals and laws governing 4D printing, materials that are employed in4D printing along with applications such as soft robotics and challenges that need to be overcome for 4Dprinting to evolve as a mainstream manufacturing technology are discussed.
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Photomechanics: directed bending of a polymer film by light.
TL;DR: It is shown that a single film of a liquid-crystal network containing an azobenzene chromophore can be repeatedly and precisely bent along any chosen direction by using linearly polarized light.