Hydrogels have attracted much attention for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications
due to the similarity of their biomimetic structure to the extracellular matrix of natural living …

Pressure is a key variable in the phase behavior of responsive polymers, both for
applications and from a fundamental point of view. In this feature article, we review recent …

Intelligent hydrogels are materials with abilities to change their chemical nature or physical
structure in response to external stimuli showing promising potential in multitudinous …

Water is known to play a fundamental role in determining the structure and functionality of
macromolecules. The same crucial contribution is also found in the in silico description of …

A series of poly (N‐isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAm) homopolymers with narrow molecular
weight distributions (MWDs) is prepared via photoinduced electron/energy transfer …

Sets of the nonionic polymers poly (N-vinyl isobutyramide)(pNVIBAm) and poly (N-isopropyl
methacrylamide)(pNIPMAm) are synthesized by radical polymerization covering the molar …

Thermoresponsive copolymers that exhibit a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) have
been exploited to prepare stimuli-responsive materials for a broad range of applications. It is …

Poly-N-isopropylacrylamide (PNIPAM) is a thermo-responsive polymer that exhibits a
reversible structural change from extended chains to aggregates in aqueous solution above …

The water swelling and subsequent solvent exchange including co-nonsolvency behavior of
thin films of a doubly thermo-responsive diblock copolymer (DBC) are studied via spectral …

The ultrafast dynamics of acrylamide monomers (AAm), polyacrylamide (PAAm), and
polyacrylamide hydrogels (PAAm-HG) in water were studied using optical heterodyne …