Low toxic, thermoresponsive dendrimers based on oligoethylene glycols with sharp and fully reversible phase
Wen Li1, Afang Zhang, Yong Chen
1Institute of Polymers, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, HCI G525, 8093, Zurich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Novel first (G1) and second (G2) generation dendrimers based on three-fold branched oligoethylene glycol dendrons are efficiently synthesized which show characteristic thermoresponsive behavior and negligible cytotoxicity (for G2).
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