Highly responsive hydrogel prepared using poly(n-isopropylacrylamide)-grafted polyrotaxane as a building block designed by reversible deactivation radical polymerization and click chemistry

Macromolecules

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 364-374

  Yasumoto, Atsushi ^a   Gotoh, Hiroaki ^a   Gotoh, Yoshie ^a   Imran, Abu Bin ^a   Hara, Mitsuo ^a   Seki, Takahiro ^a   Sakai, Yasuhiro ^b   Ito, Kohzo ^b   Takeoka, Yukikazu ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLIC MONOMERS; AMIDES; ATOM TRANSFER RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; HYDROGELS; MOLECULES; POLYMERIZATION;

BUILDING BLOCKES; CONTROLLED RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; CYCLIC MOLECULES; POLY(N-ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE); POLYMER NETWORKS; RESPONSIVE HYDROGELS; THERMO SENSITIVE; WATER TEMPERATURES;

GRAFTING (CHEMICAL);

EID: 85016311202     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01955     Document Type: Article

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