A dendronised polymer architecture breaks the conventional inverse relationship between porosity and mechanical
Cameron W Evans1, Diwei Ho1, Peter K H Lee1
1School of Molecular Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. swaminatha.iyer@uwa.edu.au.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 23, 2020
Abstract:
We present a series of synthetic polymer hydrogels which break the traditional correlation between pore size and mechanical properties. The hydrogels are prepared from a dendronised polymer architecture based on a methacrylate copolymer to which poly(amido amine) dendrons are attached. Our approach will be useful in tailoring hydrogels for tissue engineering, controlled drug release, and flexible electronics.
