Synthesis and Phase Transition of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-Based Thermo-Sensitive Cyclic Brush Polymer.

ABSTRACT: Polymers with advanced topological architectures are promising materials for wide applications due to their structure-generated unique properties different from that of the linear analogues. The elegant integration of stimuli-responsive polymers with such advanced architectures can create novel materials with virtues from both moieties, are thus a hot subject of research for both fundamental and practical investigations. To fabricate cyclic brush polymer-based intelligent materials for biomedical applications, herein, we designed and synthesized thermo-sensitive cyclic brush polymers with poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm) brushes by controlled living radical polymerization using cyclic multimacroinitiator. The thermo-induced phase transition behaviors of the resultant cyclic brush poly

SUBMITTER: Tu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6432030 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature