Nipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Dan Rokhsar (Joint Genome Institute, USA), Max Telford (University College London, UK), Graham Budd (University of Uppsala, Sweden), Michael Akam (Cambridge University, UK), Ariel Chipman (Hebrew University, Israel), Bob Goldstein (University of North Carolina, USA), Mark Blaxter (Edinburgh, UK), Michael Eisen (University of California, Ber...

A smart supercapacitor was fabricated by loading a thermosensitive polymer P(NIPAM-co-SPMA) onto the surface of NiAl-layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanowalls grown on a flexible Ni foil substrate, which displays temperature-triggered on-off ion channels for controlling the electrochemical behavior.

A novel thermo-sensitive superabsorbent hydrogel with saltand pH-responsiveness properties was obtained by grafting of mixtures of acrylic acid (AA) and N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM) monomers onto kappa-carrageenan, kC, using ammonium persulfate (APS) as a free radical initiator in the presence of methylene bisacrylamide (MBA) as a crosslinker. Infrared spectroscopy was carried out to confirm t...

A novel approach is reported for cell patterning based on addressable microheaters and a poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) (pNIPAM) themoresponsive coating. This thermoresponsive coating is created by a radio frequency NIPAM plasma and is denoted as plasma polymerized NIPAM (ppNIPAM). Films of ppNIPAM with a good retention of monomer side-chain functionality are produced using low-power continuous p...

The thermally induced volume phase transition process of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-acrylic acid) (PNIPAM-co-AA) hydrogel is studied using FT-IR spectroscopy in combination with the perturbation correlation moving window (PCMW) technique and two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2Dcos) analysis. According to PCMW spectra analysis, an elevation of volume phase transition temperature (VPTT...

Nanocomposite materials consisting of a colloidal metal nanoparticle within a synthetic polymer hydrogel shell have attracted great attention due to potential applications in several fields such as catalysis, photonics, electronics, optics and biomedicine. Within the polymeric nanoparticles the field concerning stimuli-responsive nanomaterials has been investigated intensively in the past years...

The present research was performed aiming to develop gel with the characteristic of reversible thermosensitive in adsorbing heavy metal ions from its solution. There were three gels used this study adsorb ion salt solution provided Zn(NO 3 ) 2 ; copolymer consisting zwitterionic betaine N,N -dimethyl(acrylamidopropyl)ammonium propane sulfonate (DMAAPS), butane (DMAABS), and DMAAPS copolymerized...