Thermo-responsive Graft Copolymers based on Poly(Methyl Vinyl Ether): from Synthesis to Evaluation Universiteit Gent
Recently, stimuli-responsive polymer systems have been extensively investigated because of their wide range of potential applications in medicine, biotechnology, ecology and pharmacology. The most important stimulus in these studies is temperature. Thermo-responsive polymers are hydrophilic and water-soluble at low temperatures, but separate from these solutions when the temperature is raised above a certain temperature, which is called the ...