Comb-type grafted hydrogels with rapid deswelling response to temperature changes

Nature

Volumn 374, Issue 6519, 1995, Pages 240-242

  Yoshida, Ryo ^a   Uchida, Katsumi ^b   Kaneko, Yuzo ^b   Sakai, Kiyotaka ^b   Kikuchi, Akihiko ^a   Sakurai, Yasuhisa ^a   Okano, Teruo ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; CROSSLINKING; DIFFUSION; GELS; GRAFT COPOLYMERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PH EFFECTS; POROSITY; REACTION KINETICS; SWELLING; THERMAL EFFECTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

GEL ARCHITECTURE; GRAFTED SIDE CHAINS; HYDROPHOBIC REGIONS; POLY N ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE; POLYMER CHAINS; POLYMERIC HYDROGELS; RAPID DESWELLING;

HYDROGELS;

EID: 0029267842     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/374240a0     Document Type: Article

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