Reprint
Stimuli-Responsive Gels
Edited by
September 2018
288 pages
- ISBN978-3-03897-210-5 (Paperback)
- ISBN978-3-03897-211-2 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Stimuli-Responsive Gels that was published in
Chemistry & Materials Science
Summary
Although the technological and scientific importance of functional polymers have been well established over the last few decades, the most recent focus that has attracted much attention concerns stimuli-responsive polymer gels. These materials are of particular interest due to their abilities to respond to internal and/or external chemo-physical stimuli. Aside from the scientific challenges of designing stimuli-responsive polymer gels, the main technological interests concern numerous applications, ranging from catalysis in microsystem technology and chemo-mechanical actuators to sensors.
This Special Issue includes seventeen papers covering a wide range of subjects including thermo- and pH-responsive hydrogels, functionalized materials, supramolecular stimuli-responsive structures, composite hydrogels, sensors, and biomedical applications. Together, these contributions not only provide an excellent overview of the current state-of-the-art in the field but also point out exciting challenges and opportunities for future work. In a number of reviews the most recent findings on “Stimuli-Responsive Gels” are compiled in this book supplemented by original contributionsFormat
- Paperback
License
© 2019 by the authors; CC BY license
Keywords
hydrogels; silver nanoparticles; absorption; nanocomposites; swelling; DNA competitive displacement; hydrogel swelling; interferometric readout; nanometer resolution; PEG porogen; supramolecular; stimuli-responsive; micellar gel; associating polymer; terpyridine; rheology; vanillin; N-isopropyl acrylamide; photo cross-linking; hydrogel films; temperature responsive; swelling; lower critical solution temperature; surface plasmon resonance; stimuli responsive; gels; poly(vinyl caprolactam); biomedical applications; stimuli-responsive polymers; photonic materials; poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)-based microgels; etalons; optical sensing; photopatterning; photopolymerisation; PNIPAAm; stimuli-responsive hydrogel; reproducibility; hydrogels; thermoresponsive materials; magnetic nanoparticles; poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM); field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM); physical hydrogel; polyelectrolyte; pH-responsive; block polyampholyte; polyion association; ionic interactions; three-dimensional (3D) network; thermoresponsive; micelle; hydrogel; organogel; UCST; LCST; multi-stimulus; drug delivery; cellulose nanocrystals; organoclay; nanocomposite hydrogels; hydrogel; pNipam; core-shell particle; lower critical solution temperature (LCST); thermoresponsive; injectable polymers; sustained release; sol-to-gel transition; hydrogel; peptide drug delivery; hydrogel; N-isopropylacrylamide; LCST; cationic polymers; hydrogels; stimuli-responsive; heterocyclic; swelling of gels; drug-delivery systems; drug delivery; temperature responsive; gold nanoshell; hydrogel coating; functional gels; hydrogels; microgels; hybrid microgels; stimuli-responsive; shape memory hydrogels; self-healing gels; n/a