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Photomotion of Hydrogels with Covalently Attached Azo Dye Moieties—Thermoresponsive and Non-Thermoresponsive Gels

Gels, 2022
The unique photomotion of azo materials under irradiation has been in the focus of research for decades and has been expanded to different classes of solids such as polymeric glasses, liquid crystalline materials, and elastomers.
Thorben G. Jaik, Assegid M. Flatae, Navid Soltani, Philipp Reuschel, Mario Agio, Emiliano Descrovi, Ulrich Jonas   +6 more
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Understanding the Degradation of Core-Shell Nanogels Using Asymmetrical Flow Field Flow Fractionation

Journal of Functional Biomaterials, 2023
Nanogels are candidates for biomedical applications, and core-shell nanogels offer the potential to tune thermoresponsive behaviour with the capacity for extensive degradation.
Edyta Niezabitowska, Dominic M. Gray, Eduardo Gallardo-Toledo, Andrew Owen, Steve P. Rannard, Tom O. McDonald   +5 more
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Hydrogel Microvalves as Control Elements for Parallelized Enzymatic Cascade Reactions in Microfluidics

Micromachines, 2020
Compartmentalized microfluidic devices with immobilized catalysts are a valuable tool for overcoming the incompatibility challenge in (bio) catalytic cascade reactions and high-throughput screening of multiple reaction parameters. To achieve flow control
Franziska Obst, Anthony Beck, Chayan Bishayee, Philipp J. Mehner, Andreas Richter, Brigitte Voit, Dietmar Appelhans   +6 more
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Thermoresponsive Cationic Polymers: PFAS Binding Performance under Variable pH, Temperature and Comonomer Composition

Gels, 2022
The versatility and unique qualities of thermoresponsive polymeric systems have led to the application of these materials in a multitude of fields. One such field that can significantly benefit from the use of innovative, smart materials is environmental
E. Molly Frazar, Anicah Smith, Thomas Dziubla, J. Zach Hilt   +3 more
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In Situ SERS Sensing by a Laser-Induced Aggregation of Silver Nanoparticles Templated on a Thermoresponsive Polymer

Biosensors, 2022
A stimuli-responsive (pH- and thermoresponsive) micelle-forming diblock copolymer, poly(1,2-butadiene)290-block-poly(N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate)240 (PB-b-PDMAEMA), was used as a polymer template for the in situ synthesis of silver nanoparticles (
Larisa V. Sigolaeva, Natalia L. Nechaeva, Anton I. Ignatov, Lyubov Y. Filatova, Timur Z. Sharifullin, Jonas Eichhorn, Felix H. Schacher, Dmitry V. Pergushov, Alexander M. Merzlikin, Ilya N. Kurochkin   +9 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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Thermoresponsive Nanogels Based on Different Polymeric Moieties for Biomedical Applications

Gels, 2020
Nanogels, or nanostructured hydrogels, are one of the most interesting materials in biomedical engineering. Nanogels are widely used in medical applications, such as in cancer therapy, targeted delivery of proteins, genes and DNAs, and scaffolds in ...
Sobhan Ghaeini-Hesaroeiye, Hossein Razmi Bagtash, Soheil Boddohi, Ebrahim Vasheghani-Farahani, Esmaiel Jabbari   +4 more
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Synthesis and characterization of starch ether/alginate hydrogels with reversible and tunable thermoresponsive properties

Materials Research Express, 2020
A thermoresponsive hydrogel that was composed of 2-hydroxy-3-isopropoxypropyl starch (HIPS) and alginate was synthesized via cross-linking with hybrid crosslinkers including ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether (EDGE) and calcium chloride (CaCl _2 ...
Mingyun Dai, Yue Shang, Miao Li, Benzhi Ju, Ying Liu, Ye Tian   +5 more
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Injectable Thermoresponsive Hydrogels for Cancer Therapy: Challenges and Prospects

Gels, 2023
The enervating side effects of chemotherapeutic drugs have necessitated the use of targeted drug delivery in cancer therapy. To that end, thermoresponsive hydrogels have been employed to improve the accumulation and maintenance of drug release at the ...
Sandrine Tanga, Marique Aucamp, Poornima Ramburrun   +2 more
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Controlled release nanoparticulate matter delivery system [PDF]

, 2016
A controlled release nanoparticulate matter delivery system includes a plurality of thermoresponsive modules containing a respective nanoparticulate matter.
Alberts, Christopher B., Aswath, Pranesh B., Blanco, Letia M., Godfrey, Kyle C., Grace, Christopher A., Patin, Andrew E., Shiakolas, Panayiotis S.   +6 more
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