Temperature-responsive polymers or thermoresponsive polymers are polymers that exhibit drastic and discontinuous changes in their physical properties...

abbreviated PNIPA, PNIPAM, PNIPAAm, NIPA, PNIPAA or PNIPAm) is a temperature-responsive polymer that was first synthesized in the 1950s. It can be synthesized...

stimuli-responsive gels. To avoid the electrolysis of water, hydrogel-based microfluidic devices are mainly based on temperature-responsive polymers with...

polymers with tunable or responsive properties are sometimes called smart inorganic polymers. A special class of inorganic polymers are geopolymers, which...

the surrounding medium changes. Temperature-responsive polymers are materials which undergo changes upon temperature. Halochromic materials are commonly...

A nanogel is a polymer-based, crosslinked hydrogel particle on the sub-micron scale. These complex networks of polymers present a unique opportunity in...

A superabsorbent polymer (SAP) (also called slush powder) is a water-absorbing hydrophilic homopolymers or copolymers that can absorb and retain extremely...

Smart polymers, stimuli-responsive polymers or functional polymers are high-performance polymers that change according to the environment they are in....

when induced by an external stimulus (trigger), such as temperature change. IUPAC definition Polymer that, after heating and being subjected to a plastic...

Smart inorganic polymers (SIPs) are hybrid or fully inorganic polymers with tunable (smart) properties such as stimuli responsive physical properties...

supramolecular polymers having "stimuli-responsive" and "thermally bisignate" characteristics is also possible. In conventional covalent polymerization, two models...

pH sensitive or pH responsive polymers are materials which will respond to the changes in the pH of the surrounding medium by varying their dimensions...

Thermoresponsive polymers can be used as stationary phase in liquid chromatography. Here, the polarity of the stationary phase can be varied by temperature changes...

Poly(phthalaldehyde), abbreviated as PPA, is a metastable stimuli-responsive polymer first synthesized in 1967. It has garnered significant attention during...

Poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA) is a polymer made from methacrylic acid (preferred IUPAC name, 2-methylprop-2-enoic acid), which is a carboxylic acid. It...

methacrylate, PDMAEMA), a negatively charged, pH-insensitive polymer, or a temperature-responsive polymer (poly-N-isopropyl acrylamide, PNIPAm). In changing the...

specialized type of polymer hydrogel. A hydrogel is a macromolecular polymer gel constructed of a network of crosslinked polymer chains. Hydrogels are...

Suresh P. (2023), "Magnetically responsive polymeric gels and elastomeric system(s) for drug delivery", Smart Polymeric Nano-Constructs in Drug Delivery...

and drug release behaviors of pH-responsive copolymers ethyl cellulose-graft-PDEAEMA through ATRP". Carbohydrate Polymers. 84 (1): 195–202. doi:10.1016/j...

may be used in electrical devices for temperature sensing (if using a temperature-responsive shape memory polymer matrix), or as electrical safety devices...

of organic polymers with the formula (CH2CHCO2CH3)n. It is a synthetic acrylate polymer derived from methyl acrylate monomer. The polymers are colorless...

Phase-changing polymer (PCP) shows reversible phase transition between amorphous and semicrystalline states. This change of phase is dominated by temperature change...

pC/N: 10 times larger than that observed in any other polymer. PVDF has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of about −35 °C and is typically 50–60% crystalline...

micro-encapsulated wax), salt hydrates, thermochromic polymer films, shape-memory alloys, temperature-responsive polymers, structure integrated photovoltaics, and...

In polymer chemistry, a copolymer is a polymer derived from more than one species of monomer. The polymerization of monomers into copolymers is called...

Depolymerizable polymers or Low-Ceiling Temperature Polymers refer to polymeric materials that can undergo depolymerization to revert the materials to...

is released from the system. pH responsive drug delivery systems are typically synthesized from pH-responsive polymers that have been conjugated with ionic...

by Heino Finkelmann. In the temperature range of the liquid crystalline phase, the mesogen's orientation forces the polymer chains into a stretched conformation...

consist of long polymer chains that are stiff at service temperatures but become softer with increasing temperature. At low temperatures, the molecular...

ambient temperatures, which is advantageous because polymers degrade at high temperatures, so if a high-temperature plasma was used the polymers would degrade...