R Yoshida - Advanced Materials, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
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 …
S Minko - Journal of Macromolecular Science, Part C: Polymer …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
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 …
S Sanjuan, P Perrin, N Pantoustier, Y Tran - Langmuir, 2007 - ACS Publications
We synthesize polybase brushes and investigate their swelling behavior. Poly (2- (dimethylamino) ethyl methacrylate))(PDMAEMA) brushes are prepared by the “grafting …
I Tokarev, V Gopishetty, J Zhou, M Pita… - … applied materials & …, 2009 - ACS Publications
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 …
Soft nanotechnology is a rapidly developing area of research that exploits principles such as self-assembly, entropy, swelling and collapse transitions, and polymeric building blocks to …
P Fratzl, R Elbaum, I Burgert - Faraday discussions, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …