TY - JOUR
AU - Armes, Steven P.
AB - Stimuli-responsive hydrogels are readily prepared using a wide range of (meth)acrylic monomers due to their ease of polymerisation and their widespread commercial availability. This review focuses on stimuli-responsive hydrogels based on diblock and triblock copolymer architectures, where at least one of the blocks comprises a (meth)acrylic monomer (i.e. acrylates, acrylamides, methacrylates and/or methacrylamides). Particular attention is paid to synthetic aspects, aqueous gelation behaviour as a function of external stimuli and potential biomedical applications.
TI - (Meth)acrylic stimulus-responsive block copolymer hydrogels
JF - Soft Matter
DO - 10.1039/c1sm06035j
DA - 2011-12-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/royal-society-of-chemistry/meth-acrylic-stimulus-responsive-block-copolymer-hydrogels-eVLrMLUr6B
SP - 592
EP - 605
VL - 8
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -