A surface-grafted thermoresponsive hydrogel in which the surface structure dominates the bulk properties
Ko Matsukawa1, Tsukuru Masuda, Aya Mizutani Akimoto
1Department of Materials Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan. akimoto@cross.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp ryo@cross.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 3, 2016
Abstract:
A surface-grafted hydrogel was successfully synthesized by immobilization of the ATRP initiator at the surface region of the gel and the subsequent ARGET ATRP step. This is the first example of a bulk hydrogel with a dense surface-localized layer of a grafted polymer and "active" permeation control of the gel.
