Thermoresponsive polymers hold great potential in the biomedical field, since they enable
the fabrication of cell sheets, in situ drug delivery and 3D-printing under physiological …

Ions differ in their ability to salt out proteins from solution as expressed in the lyotropic or
Hofmeister series of cations and anions. Since its first formulation in 1888, this series has …

Over the past decades, there has been a flourishing of phase-separated polymer gels.
Unlike traditional design methods that rely on chemical structure and polymer network …

Crosslinked polymers and gels are important in soft robotics, solar vapor generation, energy
storage, drug delivery, catalysis, and biosensing. However, their attractive mass transport …

2.2. 2. Microgels and latexes 2.3. Other synthetic schemes 2.3. 1. Radiation polymerization
2.3. 2. Functionalized PNIPAAM 3. Single chains in solution 3.1. Solution properties of the …

The innate ability of poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAAm) thermo-responsive hydrogel to
copolymerize and to graft synthetic polymers and biomolecules, in conjunction with the …

An account of the preparation and characterization of temperature-sensitive aqueous
microgels based on poly (N-isopropylacrylamide) was first published in 1986. Since then …

Numerous non-ionic thermally responsive homopolymers phase separate from their
aqueous solutions upon heating. Far fewer neutral homopolymers are known to phase …

Thermoresponsive copolymers have attracted considerable interest in both the polymer and
biomaterial literature. They show interesting fundamental behaviour (thermally triggered …

Water and alcohol, such as methanol or ethanol, are miscible and, individually, good
solvents for poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAm), but this polymer precipitates in water …