Benefiting from their responsiveness and adaptability, the stimuli-responsive polymers have
been widely investigated and exploited in the various fields, such as environmental …

Solubility and functionality of polymeric materials are essential properties determining their
role in any application. In that regard, double hydrophilic copolymers (DHC) are typically …

The first book to tackle the application of smart polymers in bioseparation and
bioprocessing, Smart Polymers: Applications in Biotechnology and Biomedicine broke new …

Phase transition behavior of unimolecular dendritic three-layer nanostructures with dual
thermoresponsive coronas is studied. Successive reversible addition-fragmentation transfer …

Hierarchical polymer structures such as pNIPAM microgels have been extensively studied
for their ability to undergo structural and physical transformations that can be controlled by …

It is known that linear homopolymer chains can undergo a coil-to-globule-to-precipitation
transition when the solvent quality gradually changes from good to poor. It is also known that …

The self-assembling properties of hydrophobically modified (HM) telechelic poly (N-
isopropylacrylamides)(PNIPAM) were studied in aqueous solutions of concentration ranging …

Diarylethene derivatives with hexaethylene glycol side chains were synthesized and their
self-assembling and photochromic reactivity were investigated. The diarylethenes showed …

Stimuli-responsive polymers (SRPs) are capable of changing their solubility, conformation,
and volume in response to external stimuli. By understanding the nature of the responsivity …

Our previous studies of the captioned transition have shown that thermally sensitive poly (N-
isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM) in water can form stable individual single-chain globules, but …