Stimuli responsive polymers can provide a variety of applications for the biomedical fields.
The interest in these polymers has exponentially increased due to their promising potential …

This article reviews recent literature on polymer brushes with an emphasis on linear polymer
brushes attached to solid substrate surfaces. The following topics are included:(i) theoretical …

Synthesis of Well-Defined Polypeptide-Based Materials via the Ring-Opening
Polymerization of α-Amino Acid N-Carboxyanhydrides | Chemical Reviews ACS ACS …

Stimulus-responsive or 'smart'polymers undergo strong conformational changes when only
small changes in the environment (eg pH, temperature, ionic strength) occur. These …

Synthetic peptide-based polymers represent a unique class of macromolecules able to
mimic the properties of natural proteins in materials sciences since (1) they present the …

Stimuli-responsive membranes change their physicochemical properties in response to
changes in their environment. Stimuli-responsive membranes have been designed to …

Syntheses and polymerizations of α‐amino acid N‐carboxyanhydrides (NCAs) were
reported for the first time by Hermann Leuchs in 1906. Since that time, these cyclic and …

Synthetic polypeptides have emerged as versatile tools in both materials science and
biomedical engineering due to their tunable properties and biodegradability. While the …

Polymer surface modification has been a significant issue over two decades in many fields
of application. Among modification techniques developed to date, surface grafting has …

Surface-grafting polymers, also known as polymer brushes, have become an important tool
for surface modification or functionalization. The strong covalent bond between the polymer …