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Machine learning to determine optimal conditions for controlling the size of elastin-based particles

Scientific Reports, 2021
This paper evaluates the aggregation behavior of a potential drug and gene delivery system that combines branched polyethyleneimine (PEI), a positively-charged polyelectrolyte, and elastin-like polypeptide (ELP), a recombinant polymer that exhibits lower
Jared S. Cobb, Alexandra Engel, Maria A. Seale, Amol V. Janorkar   +3 more
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Thermally Responsive Hydrogels for Passive Temperature Regulation under Direct Sunlight

Advanced Photonics Research, 2023
By spontaneously emitting midinfrared radiation to outer space through the atmospheric window and reflecting sunlight, daytime radiative coolers achieve notable passive cooling performance.
Dajie Xie, Wei Li, Corey A. Richards, Haibo Gao, Chen Chen, Nenad Miljkovic, Shanhui Fan, Jae Lee, Shailesh N. Joshi, Paul V. Braun   +9 more
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The Properties of Thermosensitive Zwitterionic Sulfobetaine NIPAM-co-DMAAPS Polymer and the Hydrogels: The Effects of Monomer Concentration on the Transition Temperature and Its Correlation with the Adsorption Behavior

Indonesian Journal of Chemistry, 2020
The properties of N-isopropylacrylamide copolymerized with N,N-dimethyl(acrylamidopropyl)ammonium propane sulfonate [poly(NIPAM-co-DMAAPS)] prepared with various monomer ratios such as transition temperature, molecular structure, viscosity were ...
Eva Oktavia Ningrum, Agus Purwanto, Galuh Chynintya Rosita, Asep Bagus   +3 more
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The Removal of Hydrophobic Matter from Thermosensitive Poly[oligo(ethylene glycol) Monomethyl Ether Acrylate] Gel Adsorbent in Alcohol–Water Mixtures

Gels, 2022
A thermosensitive gel that exhibits lower critical solution temperature (LCST) becomes hydrophilic at low temperatures and hydrophobic at high temperatures in water.
Syed Ragib Safi, Toshiki Kaneko, Katsuhiro Nakahara, Takehiko Gotoh, Takashi Iizawa   +4 more
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Constrained thermoresponsive polymers – new insights into fundamentals and applications

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021
In the last decades, numerous stimuli-responsive polymers have been developed and investigated regarding their switching properties. In particular, thermoresponsive polymers, which form a miscibility gap with the ambient solvent with a lower or upper ...
Patricia Flemming, Alexander S. Münch, Andreas Fery, Petra Uhlmann   +3 more
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Using Reverse Osmosis Membrane at High Temperature for Water Recovery and Regeneration from Thermo-Responsive Ionic Liquid-Based Draw Solution for Efficient Forward Osmosis

Membranes, 2021
Forward osmosis (FO) membrane process is expected to realize energy-saving seawater desalination. To this end, energy-saving water recovery from a draw solution (DS) and effective DS regeneration are essential.
Eiji Kamio, Hiroki Kurisu, Tomoki Takahashi, Atsushi Matsuoka, Tomohisa Yoshioka, Keizo Nakagawa, Hideto Matsuyama   +6 more
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Design of intrinsically disordered proteins that undergo phase transitions with lower critical solution temperatures

APL Materials, 2021
Many naturally occurring elastomers are intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) built up of repeating units, and they can demonstrate two types of thermoresponsive phase behavior.
Xiangze Zeng, Chengwen Liu, Martin J. Fossat, Pengyu Ren, Ashutosh Chilkoti, Rohit V. Pappu   +5 more
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Tuning the Size of Thermoresponsive Poly(N-Isopropyl Acrylamide) Grafted Silica Microgels

Gels, 2017
Core-shell microgels were synthesized via a free radical emulsion polymerization of thermoresponsive poly-(N-isopropyl acrylamide), pNipam, on the surface of silica nanoparticles. Pure pNipam microgels have a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) of
Nils Nun, Stephan Hinrichs, Martin A. Schroer, Dina Sheyfer, Gerhard Grübel, Birgit Fischer   +5 more
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Kinetics of Water Transfer Between the LCST and UCST Thermoresponsive Blocks in Diblock Copolymer Thin Films Monitored by In Situ Neutron Reflectivity

Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2023
The kinetics of water transfer between the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) and upper critical solution temperature (UCST) thermoresponsive blocks in about 10 nm thin films of a diblock copolymer is monitored by in situ neutron reflectivity ...
Neng Hu, Li Lin, Ezzeldin Metwalli, Lorenz Bießmann, Martine Philipp, Viet Hildebrand, Andre Laschewsky, Christine M. Papadakis, Robert Cubitt, Qi Zhong, Peter Müller‐Buschbaum   +10 more
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Thermosensitive Behavior Defines the Features of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/Magnetite Nanoparticles for Cancer Management

Applied Sciences, 2023
This paper reports the preparation and characterization of thermosensitive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM)/magnetite nanoparticles in various conditions.
Ionut-Cristian Radu, Andreea-Cristina Ion Mirica, Ariana Hudita, Eugenia Tanasa, Horia Iovu, Catalin Zaharia, Bianca Galateanu   +6 more
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