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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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Additive manufacturing of carbon nanotube-photopolymer composite radar absorbing materials
TL;DR: In this article, the microwave absorption, printability, complex electromagnetic parameters were measured, acrylic ester photopolymer with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) content ranging from 0.5% to 1.6%.
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Stimuli-responsive polymers: Fundamental considerations and applications
Yongfeng Gao,Menglian Wei,Xue Li,Wenwen Xu,Andrews Ahiabu,Juliana Perdiz,Zining Liu,Michael J. Serpe +7 more
TL;DR: This review presents a basic introduction to the theories that have been developed to describe polymer chains, brushes, and networks, and details numerous examples of how stimuli-responsive polymers can be used for sensing and biosensing, drug delivery, and as artificial muscles.
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pH- and Voltage-Responsive Chitosan Hydrogel through Covalent Cross-Linking with Catechol
TL;DR: The cross-linked chitosan film shows a pH-responsive, switchlike behavior toward the negatively charged redox probe, Fe(CN)(6)(3-/4-), and withstands harsh acidic conditions.
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Self-assembly of star-shaped poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline) in aqueous solutions
TL;DR: In this article, an eight-arm star-shaped poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline) (PiPrOx) with calix[8]arene core was studied by turbidimetry and light scattering in aqueous solutions within concentration c ranging from 0.002 to 0.19 g cm−3.
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Functional Polymer Opals and Porous Materials by Shear-Induced Assembly of Tailor-Made Particles
TL;DR: The emphasis of this feature article is on elucidating the particle design and incorporation of addressable moieties as well as elaborated crosslinking strategies for the preparation of smart (inverse) opal films, inorganic/organic opals, and ceramic precursors by shear-induced ordering.
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