Advances in Multi Responsive Polymers
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart and Functional Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 321
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Interests: polymers; composites; hydrogels; nanomaterials; smart materials; high-energy radiation; polymerization; biomaterials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Solving the problems of drug delivery and tissue engineering have brought about a revolution in the development of materials responsive to various environmental stimuli. Polymer-based systems have proven to be a gold mine for such applications. By implementing specific functional groups, these systems can be modeled to sense targeted physical or chemical environmental variables and react in a desired way. Moreover, recent advances in material science have proven that by integrating not one but a few different functional groups, several environmental variables can be targeted at the same time. This has brought the so-called multi-responsive polymer system into existence. Developed in the form of particles, films, or hydrogels, these systems can change their configuration, dimensions, and chemical or physical properties by exposing them to predetermined external stimuli, such as temperature, light, electromagnetic field, pH value, ionic strength, etc, or a combination of these. These multi-responsive polymeric materials can be utilized for a variety of applications. Besides controlled drug delivery and tissue engineering, they are used as self-healing materials, bio-separators, sensors and actuators, and much more.
This Special Issue highlights the recent advances in the design, characterization, and application of such multi-responsive polymeric materials.
Dr. Edin Suljovrujić
Dr. Slobodanka Galovic
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multi-responsive systems
- thermo-responsive polymers
- light-responsive polymers
- pH-responsive polymers
- electricity-responsive polymers
- polymerization techniques
- functionalized materials
- smart materials
- nano-sized assemblies
- stimuli-sensitive gels
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