Rational design of thermoresponsive polymers in aqueous solutions: A thermodynamics map

C Zhao, Z Ma, XX Zhu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Temperature variations may induce changes in solution properties for thermoresponsive
polymers, which have drawn much research attention due to their potential applications in …

Exploration of bioengineered scaffolds composed of thermo-responsive polymers for drug delivery in wound healing

L Castillo-Henríquez, J Castro-Alpízar… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Innate and adaptive immune responses lead to wound healing by regulating a complex
series of events promoting cellular cross-talk. An inflammatory response is presented with its …

How to manipulate the upper critical solution temperature (UCST)?

J Niskanen, H Tenhu - Polymer Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
In this mini-review, we discuss multi-stimuli-responsive polymers, which exhibit upper critical
solution temperature (UCST) behavior mainly in aqueous solutions. Firstly, we discuss both …

Thermoresponsive polymers for water treatment and collection

X Xu, N Bizmark, KSS Christie, SS Datta, ZJ Ren… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
To overcome the current scarcity of fresh water sustainably, new technologies will be
required that produce potable water from a range of sources, including seawater and …

Temperature-responsive polymers: Synthesis, properties, and biomedical applications

S Qiao, H Wang - Nano Research, 2018 - Springer
Interest in temperature-responsive polymers has steadily grown over the past several
decades, and numerous studies have been dedicated to developing temperature sensitive …

Double hydrophilic copolymers–synthetic approaches, architectural variety, and current application fields

A Nabiyan, JB Max, FH Schacher - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solubility and functionality of polymeric materials are essential properties determining their
role in any application. In that regard, double hydrophilic copolymers (DHC) are typically …

Poly (N-acryloyl glycinamide): a fascinating polymer that exhibits a range of properties from UCST to high-strength hydrogels

Z Xu, W Liu - Chemical Communications, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
It has been fifty-four years since the N-acryloyl glycinamide (NAGA) monomer and its
polymer (PNAGA) were first reported (in 1964). Over the past decades, PNAGA aqueous …

Switch it inside-out:“schizophrenic” behavior of all thermoresponsive UCST–LCST diblock copolymers

CM Papadakis, P Müller-Buschbaum, A Laschewsky - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
This feature article reviews our recent advancements on the synthesis, phase behavior, and
micellar structures of diblock copolymers consisting of oppositely thermoresponsive blocks …

Multiple stimuli-responsive cellulose hydrogels with tunable LCST and UCST as smart windows

Y Ding, Y Yan, Q Peng, B Wang, Y Xing… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2020 - ACS Publications
It has been a significant challenge to prepare multiple-response hydrogels with both lower
critical solution temperature (LCST) and upper critical solution temperature (UCST). This …

Reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization: Fundamentals and use in practice

EV Chernikova, EV Sivtsov - Polymer Science, Series B, 2017 - Springer
Modern approaches to the synthesis of tailor-made macromolecules by radical
polymerization proceeding through the reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer …