Polymer Brushes via Surface-Initiated Controlled Radical Polymerization: Synthesis,
Characterization, Properties, and Applications | Chemical Reviews ACS ACS Publications C&EN …

So far stimuli‐responsive polymer gels and their application to smart materials have been
widely studied; this research has contributed to progress in gel science and engineering. For …

The review focuses on responsive/switching behavior of polymer brushes. The structure of
the polymer brushes is analyzed in terms of the constitution and conformation of polymer …

Synthetic polymers can be prepared with features that combine many of the advantageous
properties of natural materials, including environmental response. This Research News …

We synthesize polybase brushes and investigate their swelling behavior. Poly (2-
(dimethylamino) ethyl methacrylate))(PDMAEMA) brushes are prepared by the “grafting …

A nanostructured signal-responsive thin hydrogel membrane was coupled with enzyme-
based systems to yield “smart” multisignal-responsive hybrid systems with built-in “logic” …

This work describes the synthesis of temperature-responsive polystyrene-block-poly (N-
isopropylacrylamide)-block-polystyrene triblock copolymers, ie, PS-b-PNIPAM-b-PS, their …

The secondary plant cell wall is a composite of cellulose and a water-swelling matrix
containing hemicelluloses and lignin. Recent experiments showed that this swelling …

This contribution reviews selected mechanical experiments on individual flexible
macromolecules using single‐molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS) based on atomic force …

Soft nanotechnology is a rapidly develo** area of research that exploits principles such as
self-assembly, entropy, swelling and collapse transitions, and polymeric building blocks to …