Stimuli-responsive polymers and their applications

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Force-induced activation of covalent bonds in mechanoresponsive polymeric materials

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Supramolecular biomaterials

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The development of microgels/nanogels for drug delivery applications

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Future perspectives and recent advances in stimuli-responsive materials

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Responsive polymers in controlled drug delivery

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Stimulus-responsive hydrogels: theory, modern advances, and applications

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A reversibly antigen-responsive hydrogel

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Temperature- and light-responsive smart polymer materials

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A New Opto-Mechanical Effect in Solids

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Photomobile Polymer Materials: Towards Light‐Driven Plastic Motors

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Remotely actuated polymer nanocomposites—stress-recovery of carbon-nanotube-filled thermoplastic elastomers

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Fast liquid-crystal elastomer swims into the dark

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Recent advances and challenges in designing stimuli-responsive polymers

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Design of Liposomes for Enhanced Local Release of Drugs by Hyperthermia

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Thermally Switchable Periodicities and Diffraction from Mesoscopically Ordered Materials

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Environment-sensitive hydrogels for drug delivery

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Bio-Inspired Polymer Composite Actuator and Generator Driven by Water Gradients

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Microneedle-array patches loaded with hypoxia-sensitive vesicles provide fast glucose-responsive insulin delivery

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Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy by Microneedle Patch-Assisted Delivery of Anti-PD1 Antibody

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Stimuli-responsive nanoparticles, nanogels and capsules for integrated multifunctional intelligent systems

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Hydrogel‐Forming Microneedle Arrays for Enhanced Transdermal Drug Delivery

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Enzyme-responsive polymeric assemblies, nanoparticles and hydrogels

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pH-Responsive polymers: synthesis, properties and applications

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Thermoresponsive actuation enabled by permittivity switching in an electrostatically anisotropic hydrogel

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Magnetic responsive polymer composite materials

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Polymers move in response to light

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Synthesis and aqueous solution properties of near-monodisperse tertiary amine methacrylate homopolymers and diblock copolymers

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Anisotropic Bending and Unbending Behavior of Azobenzene Liquid‐Crystalline Gels by Light Exposure

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Responsive Polymers for Detection and Sensing Applications: Current Status and Future Developments

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Totally Synthetic Polymer Gels Responding to External Glucose Concentration: Their Preparation and Application to On−Off Regulation of Insulin Release

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Stimuli-responsive hydrogel thin films

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Microrobots for Micrometer-Size Objects in Aqueous Media: Potential Tools for Single-Cell Manipulation

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Smart hybrid materials by conjugation of responsive polymers to biomacromolecules

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Photonic Crystal Chemical Sensors: pH and Ionic Strength

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Synthesis and Application of Modulated Polymer Gels

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Biopolymer-based microgels/nanogels for drug delivery applications

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Stimuli-Responsive Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications

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Photo-responsive block copolymer micelles: design and behavior

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An instant multi-responsive porous polymer actuator driven by solvent molecule sorption

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Thermoresponsive copolymers: from fundamental studies to applications

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Temperature‐Controlled Assembly and Release from Polymer Vesicles of Poly(ethylene oxide)‐block‐ poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide)

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A high frequency photodriven polymer oscillator

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Enzyme-responsive materials: a new class of smart biomaterials

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A bio-inspired swellable microneedle adhesive for mechanical interlocking with tissue

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A chaotic self-oscillating sunlight-driven polymer actuator

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Insulin regulation of glucose uptake: a complex interplay of intracellular signalling pathways

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Glucose-Responsive Microgels Integrated with Enzyme Nanocapsules for Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery

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Cooperative Hydration, Chain Collapse, and Flat LCST Behavior in Aqueous Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Solutions

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Azobenzene-Based Light-Responsive Hydrogel System

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3D printed reversible shape changing components with stimuli responsive materials

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