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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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Smart Polymers with Special Wettability.
TL;DR: The rationale is that highly selective weak interactions are capable of creating a dynamic synergetic communication in the building components of polymers that are an integrated embodiment of macroscopic surface wettability.
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Gradient structure-induced temperature responsiveness in styrene/methyl methacrylate gradient copolymers micelles.
TL;DR: It is proposed that temperature responsiveness might be an intrinsic and universal property of gradient copolymer micelles, which only originates from the gradient structure.
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Multiscale modeling and simulations of responsive polymers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically review the computational progresses of stimuli-responsive polymers, including simulations of pH, temperature, solvent, salt ionic strength, photo field, electrical field, and so on.
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Let a Hundred Polymers Bloom: Tunable Wetting of Photografted Polymer-Carbon Nitride Surfaces
TL;DR: Sunlight is widely used by plants to produce chemical energy fundamental for all life, a process that also serves as an inspiration for science as discussed by the authors, and recently, light-harvesting semiconductor materials, such as semiconductors, have been used for light harvesting.
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A novel temperature-sensitive expandable lost circulation material based on shape memory epoxy foams to prevent losses in geothermal drilling
TL;DR: In this paper, a shape memory epoxy foam (SMEF) was successfully synthesized based on shape memory polymers and hollow glass beads (HGBs), and a novel temperature sensitive and expandable plugging agent (SMP-LCM) was developed.
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