Thermoresponsive Polymers for Nanocatalysis
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Analysis and Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 7624
Special Issue Editors
Interests: physical properties of soft-matter systems; stimuli-responsive polymers and functional materials; reaction-diffusion theory; continuum transport theories; electrostatic interactions in soft matter; drug delivery
Interests: polymer physics, polywWetting phenomena and liquid films; biological membranes; hydration and hydrophobic forces; colloid clustering and aggregation; electrostatic interactions in soft matter; polyelectrolytes; charge correlations effects
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Thermoresponsive polymers are a class of materials that experience a rapid and reversible change of their physical properties in response to a change in the temperature of the solution. Most of their applications depend on abrupt changes in aqueous solubility at either a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) or an upper critical solution temperature (UCST). One of the most studied thermoresponsive polymer is poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) due to its biocompatibility and LCST close to the human body temperature. Among their numerous applications, hydrogels made of thermoresponsive polymers have been recently used as ‘active’ or ‘smart’ carriers for catalytic metal nanoparticles since they not only stabilize the particles in solution but also change their catalytic activity and selectivity through the response of the hydrogel to small temperature changes in the solution environment. For that reason, such hybrid systems are commonly termed as nanoreactors.
The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight the progress and fundamental aspects for the synthesis, characterization and physicochemical properties of thermoresponsive polymers with applications in nanocatalysis.
Prof. Dr. Rafael Roa
Dr. Matej Kanduč
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thermoresponsive polymers
- PNIPAM
- polymer networks
- hydrogels
- synthesis
- characterization
- permeability
- diffusion
- partition coefficient
- nanoreactors
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