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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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Chemical and physical aspects of self-healing materials
TL;DR: In this paper, a review examines chemical and physical processes occurring during self-healing of polymers as well as examines the role of interfaces in rigid nano-objects in multi-component composites.
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Bioinspired Anisotropic Hydrogel Actuators with On–Off Switchable and Color-Tunable Fluorescence Behaviors
Chunxin Ma,Wei Lu,Xuxu Yang,Jiang He,Xiaoxia Le,Li Wang,Jiawei Zhang,Michael J. Serpe,Youju Huang,Tao Chen +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a macroscopic anisotropic bilayer hydrogel actuator with an on-off switchable fluorescent color-changing function was developed by combining a collapsed thermoresponsive graphene oxide-poly-poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (GO-PNIPAM) with a pH-responsive perylene bisimide-functionalized hyperbranched polyethylenimine (PBI-HPEI) hydrogels.
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Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-based Smart Hydrogels: Design, Properties and Applications
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an up-to-date account on the recent developments in advanced functional PNIPAM-based smart hydrogels and their emerging technological applications in the fields of smart actuators, photonic crystals, smart windows and novel biomedical applications.
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Smart drug delivery systems: from fundamentals to the clinic.
TL;DR: A critical overview of therapeutically-interesting stimuli to trigger drug release and the evolution of responsive materials suitable as functional excipients is offered, illustrated with recent examples of formulations in clinical trials or already commercially available, which can provide a perspective on the current state of the art on smart drug delivery systems.
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