Active Strain Engineering of Soft Plasmene Nanosheets by Thermoresponsive Hydrogels

Epitaxy has been demonstrated to be a powerful technology to precisely engineer strains at the atomic level to modulate semiconductor device properties. However, it is not suitable for strain engineering...

Design of thermoresponsive hydrogels by controlling the chemistry and imprinting of drug molecules within the hydrogel for enhanced loading and smart delivery of drugs

Various drug delivery techniques have contributed significantly to medical practice. In particular, molecular imprinting is a suitable method to increase the drug-loading efficiency in limited 3D spaces, such as hydrogels....

Thermoresponsive Property of Polymer Hydrogels Induced by Copolymerization of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Monomers: Comprehensive Study from Monomer Sequence and Water Affinity

In order to raise the possibility of practical use of thermoresponsive hydrogels in various fields, it is imperative to achieve on-demand control of responsive behavior especially by using a simple...