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SUBMITTER: Matsumoto K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5998054 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180613 1
The water content of thermo-responsive hydrogels can be drastically altered by small changes in temperature because their polymer chains change from hydrophilic to hydrophobic above their low critical solution temperature (LCST). In general, such smart hydrogels have been utilized in aqueous solutions or in their wet state, and no attempt has been made to determine the phase-transition behavior of the gels in their dried states. Here we demonstrate an application of the thermo-responsive behavio ...[more]