Functional Stimuli-Responsive Gels: Hydrogels and Microgels
One strategy that has gained much attention in the last decades is the understanding and further mimicking of structures and behaviours found in nature, as inspiration to develop materials with additional functionalities. This review presents recent advances in stimuli-responsive gels with emphasis...
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| author | Coro Echeverria Susete N. Fernandes Maria H. Godinho João Paulo Borges Paula I. P. Soares |
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| description | One strategy that has gained much attention in the last decades is the understanding and further mimicking of structures and behaviours found in nature, as inspiration to develop materials with additional functionalities. This review presents recent advances in stimuli-responsive gels with emphasis on functional hydrogels and microgels. The first part of the review highlights the high impact of stimuli-responsive hydrogels in materials science. From macro to micro scale, the review also collects the most recent studies on the preparation of hybrid polymeric microgels composed of a nanoparticle (able to respond to external stimuli), encapsulated or grown into a stimuli-responsive matrix (microgel). This combination gave rise to interesting multi-responsive functional microgels and paved a new path for the preparation of multi-stimuli “smart” systems. Finally, special attention is focused on a new generation of functional stimuli-responsive polymer hydrogels able to self-shape (shape-memory) and/or self-repair. This last functionality could be considered as the closing loop for smart polymeric gels. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3abaf3fec79b4292ad6f9975593574042022-12-21T18:50:23ZengMDPI AGGels2310-28612018-06-01425410.3390/gels4020054gels4020054Functional Stimuli-Responsive Gels: Hydrogels and MicrogelsCoro Echeverria0Susete N. Fernandes1Maria H. Godinho2João Paulo Borges3Paula I. P. Soares4Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros, ICTP-CSIC, Calle Juan de la Cierva 3, Madrid 28006, SpainI3N/CENIMAT, Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, Caparica 2829-516, PortugalI3N/CENIMAT, Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, Caparica 2829-516, PortugalI3N/CENIMAT, Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, Caparica 2829-516, PortugalI3N/CENIMAT, Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, Caparica 2829-516, PortugalOne strategy that has gained much attention in the last decades is the understanding and further mimicking of structures and behaviours found in nature, as inspiration to develop materials with additional functionalities. This review presents recent advances in stimuli-responsive gels with emphasis on functional hydrogels and microgels. The first part of the review highlights the high impact of stimuli-responsive hydrogels in materials science. From macro to micro scale, the review also collects the most recent studies on the preparation of hybrid polymeric microgels composed of a nanoparticle (able to respond to external stimuli), encapsulated or grown into a stimuli-responsive matrix (microgel). This combination gave rise to interesting multi-responsive functional microgels and paved a new path for the preparation of multi-stimuli “smart” systems. Finally, special attention is focused on a new generation of functional stimuli-responsive polymer hydrogels able to self-shape (shape-memory) and/or self-repair. This last functionality could be considered as the closing loop for smart polymeric gels.http://www.mdpi.com/2310-2861/4/2/54functional gelshydrogelsmicrogelshybrid microgelsstimuli-responsiveshape memory hydrogelsself-healing gels |
| spellingShingle | Coro Echeverria Susete N. Fernandes Maria H. Godinho João Paulo Borges Paula I. P. Soares Functional Stimuli-Responsive Gels: Hydrogels and Microgels Gels functional gels hydrogels microgels hybrid microgels stimuli-responsive shape memory hydrogels self-healing gels |
| title | Functional Stimuli-Responsive Gels: Hydrogels and Microgels |
| title_full | Functional Stimuli-Responsive Gels: Hydrogels and Microgels |
| title_fullStr | Functional Stimuli-Responsive Gels: Hydrogels and Microgels |
| title_full_unstemmed | Functional Stimuli-Responsive Gels: Hydrogels and Microgels |
| title_short | Functional Stimuli-Responsive Gels: Hydrogels and Microgels |
| title_sort | functional stimuli responsive gels hydrogels and microgels |
| topic | functional gels hydrogels microgels hybrid microgels stimuli-responsive shape memory hydrogels self-healing gels |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/2310-2861/4/2/54 |
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