Water-soluble copolymers and their hydrogels with pH-tunable diverse thermoresponsive behaviors enabled by hydrogen bonding
Ruidong Cheng, Jie Jiang, Jie Jiang, Junbo Hou, Guo Li, Jinqiang Jiang, Jinqiang Jiang, Yue Zhao
Abstract
Water-soluble copolymers display both UCST and LCST thermosensitivity in aqueous solution due to pH-determined hydrogen bonding between comonomer units, and their hydrogels can be used for information recording and encryption/decryption.
Topics & Concepts
ComonomerCopolymerSelf-healing hydrogelsHydrogen bondAqueous solutionLower critical solution temperatureUpper critical solution temperaturePolymer chemistryChemical engineeringChemistryThermoresponsive polymers in chromatographyMaterials sciencePolymerOrganic chemistryMoleculeHydrophilic interaction chromatographyHigh-performance liquid chromatographyEngineeringHydrogels: synthesis, properties, applicationsAdvanced Polymer Synthesis and CharacterizationSupramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials