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Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 430 - 432, DOI: 10.1039/b919759a


Peculiar nanocomposite hydrogel with controllable multiple thermosensitivity: double phase transition and ternary stable states

Yang Liu, Xiaoli Liu, Yongtao Wu, Bin Sun, Meifang Zhu, Makoto Takafuji and Hirotaka Ihara


A novel nanocomposite hydrogel with controllable multiple thermosensitivity has been synthesized by introducing poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) into clay/poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm) nanocomposite hydrogel, which exhibits double thermosensitive phase transition: a UCST and a LCST spontaneously.

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