Issue 94, 2014
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Smart hydrogels exhibiting UCST-type volume changes under physiologically relevant conditions†

Naohiko Shimada,a   Satoru Kidoakib  and  Atsushi Maruyama*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 B-57, Nagatsuta, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
E-mail: amaruyama@bio.titech.ac.jp

b Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Motooka 744-CE11, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan

Abstract

In this study, we prepared hydrogels composed of poly(allylurea) copolymers that exhibited UCST-type phase separation behaviour. This is the first example of a hydrogel showing a positive thermo-sensitive volume change under physiologically relevant conditions. Of interest, no hysteresis was observed between cooling and heating swelling changes.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA10612A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Sep 2014
Accepted
09 Oct 2014
First published
09 Oct 2014
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2014,4, 52346-52348

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Smart hydrogels exhibiting UCST-type volume changes under physiologically relevant conditions

N. Shimada, S. Kidoaki and A. Maruyama, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 52346 DOI: 10.1039/C4RA10612A

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