Y. Ju
2008
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Materials review
Abstract
N-isopropylacrylamide,which has both hydrophilic acylamino and hydrophobic isopropyl,receives much concern in recent years due to its polymers showing favorable thermosensitivity and memory effect.It has been used extensively in drug delivery,material separation,enzyme immobilization and immunoanalysis.The main influencing factors to its thermosensitivity are types of polymerization,porous structures,size,solvents and process conditions.Recently many research works have been done in improving the performance of traditional hydrogels.In this paper an overview of the research progress in the mechanism,the structural modification and the performance research of NIPA series thermosensitive hydrogels is presented.The research directions for future are also pointed out.