Shape switching of hollow layer-by-layer hydrogel microcontainers.
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SUBMITTER: Kozlovskaya V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3134606 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Shape switching of hollow layer-by-layer hydrogel microcontainers.
Kozlovskaya Veronika V Higgins William W Chen Jun J Kharlampieva Eugenia E
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 20110621 29
We present a novel type of ultrathin hydrogel microcapsules with pH-triggered shape switch. The capsules are produced as hollow hydrogel replicas of cubical inorganic templates and capable of keeping cubical geometries at neutral pH but transform into bulged structures at basic pH. ...[more]
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