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Stimuli-responsive polymers and their applications

Menglian Wei, +3 more
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
- Vol. 8, Iss: 1, pp 127-143
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Recent advances in the areas of sensing and biosensing, drug delivery, and actuators are reviewed, and the group's work on poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-based microgels and assemblies is highlighted.
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This article is published in Polymer Chemistry.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 854 citations till now.

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Stimuli-responsive nanocarriers for drug delivery

TL;DR: Recent advances in the design of nanoscale stimuli-responsive systems that are able to control drug biodistribution in response to specific stimuli, either exogenous (variations in temperature, magnetic field, ultrasound intensity, light or electric pulses) or endogenous (changes in pH, enzyme concentration or redox gradients).
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Solution Properties of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)

TL;DR: In this paper, a lower critical solution temperature of poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide was found to be due to an entropy effect, which was attributed to the formation of nonpolar and intermolecular hydrogen bonds.
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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.
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