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Preparation of Thermoresponsive Nanostructured Surfaces for Tissue Engineering
Published on: March 1, 2016
A chemo-mechanical switch for controllable water transportation based on a thermally responsive block copolymer
Jianmin Yang1, Mitsuaki Hida, Sifeng Mao
1Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minamiohsawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan. uchiyama-katsumi@tmu.ac.jp.
Abstract:
A smart and reversible chemo-mechanical switch was developed by synthesis of a thermally responsive block copolymer brush poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-hexafluoroisopropyl acrylate) (P(NIPAAm-co-HFIPA)) on a capillary plate. With the temperature changing around lower critical solution temperature (LCST), the designed chemo-mechanical switch exhibited excellent "ON-OFF" behavior for water transportation.
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