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SUBMITTER: Yamamoto T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5970185 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yamamoto Tetsuya T Masubuchi Yuichi Y Doi Masao M
Nature communications 20180525 1
The equilibrium volume of a thermoresponsive polymer gel changes dramatically across a temperature due to the coil-globule transitions of the polymers. When cofacially oriented nanosheets are embedded in such a gel, the composite gel deforms at the temperature, without changing the volume, and the response time is considerably shorter. We here theoretically predict that the deformation of the composite gel results from the fact that the nanosheets restrain the deformation of some polymers, while ...[more]