• acidic pH values. These polymers can be designed with many different architectures for different applications. Key uses of pH sensitive polymers are controlled...
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  • Smart polymers, stimuli-responsive polymers or functional polymers are high-performance polymers that change according to the environment they are in....
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  • Smart inorganic polymers showing tunable and responsive properties. pH-sensitive polymers are materials that change in volume when the pH of the surrounding...
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    Photoresist (category Light-sensitive chemicals)
    (2007), Mark, James E. (ed.), "Properties of Photoresist Polymers", Physical Properties of Polymers Handbook, New York, NY: Springer New York, pp. 965–979...
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    Examples are electrostrictive polymers and dielectric elastomers. Ferroelectric polymers are a group of crystalline polar polymers that are also ferroelectric...
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  • response to the pH change. Common pH-sensitive structures include chemical bonds that hydrolyze or break in acidic environments, polymers that change their...
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  • Supramolecular polymers are a subset of polymers where the monomeric units are connected by reversible and highly directional secondary interactions–that...
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    Temperature-responsive polymers or thermoresponsive polymers are polymers that exhibit drastic and discontinuous changes in their physical properties with...
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  • compressing these chains. Emulsion polymerization is used to make several commercially important polymers. Many of these polymers are used as solid materials...
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    their purpose. Polymers are chemical compounds made up of a large number of identical components linked together like chains. Polymers are the raw materials...
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    though the polymer used had 2 limitations; low conductivity and the difficulty of injecting electrons. Later development of conjugated polymers would allow...
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    000 are very useful in pressure-sensitive adhesives, silicone rubbers, coatings and additives. Polysiloxane polymers with reactive side group functionality...
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    transitions. Fragility Archived 2007-06-28 at the Wayback Machine VFT Eqn. Polymers I Polymers II Archived 2010-01-11 at the Wayback Machine Angell: Aqueous media...
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    Leichner C, Jelkmann M, Bernkop-Schnürch A (2019). "Thiolated polymers: Bioinspired polymers utilizing one of the most important bridging structures in nature"...
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  • polymerization of monomers in the presence of a template molecule that is extracted afterwards, leaving behind complementary cavities. These polymers...
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  • the use of low viscosity pre-polymers (typically less than 1 pascal), a short period of polymerization, the use of polymer with advantageous mechanical...
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    "Contact time- and pH-dependent adhesion and cohesion of low molecular weight chitosan coated surfaces". Carbohydrate Polymers. 117 (6): 887–894. doi:10...
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  • Photoconductive polymers absorb electromagnetic radiation and produce an increase of electrical conductivity. Photoconductive polymers have been used in...
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    RAFT polymerization can be used to design polymers of complex architectures, such as linear block copolymers, comb-like, star, brush polymers, dendrimers...
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    two categories according to their origin: natural or synthetic polymers. Natural polymers for hydrogel preparation include hyaluronic acid, chitosan, heparin...
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    polymers sensitive to humidity levels in the atmosphere because water molecules can diffuse into the surface and disrupt the network. Some polymers are...
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  • adhesive and backing increasing the bond. Pressure sensitive adhesives are viscoelastic polymers with their rheology tuned to the desired bonding and...
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    Poly(methyl acrylate) (category Acrylate polymers)
    of organic polymers with the formula (CH2CHCO2CH3)n. It is a synthetic acrylate polymer derived from methyl acrylate monomer. The polymers are colorless...
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    with metals, attack is confined to specific polymers and particular chemicals. Thus polycarbonate is sensitive to attack by alkalis, but not by acids. On...
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  • Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (category Acrylate polymers)
    temperatures, these polymers can be dissolved in water at room temperature and administered into body. However, upon the administration, these polymers phase-separate...
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  • polymers used in polymer-drug conjugates can be degraded through enzymatic activity and acidity. Polymers are now being synthesized to be sensitive to...
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  • S2CID 225243217. David, C. (1975). "Chapter 4 Oxidative Degradation of Polymers". Degradation of polymers. Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co. pp. 425–538. ISBN 978-0-444-41155-6...
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    Polyacetylene (category Organic polymers)
    doped polymers as easily processable and lightweight "plastic metals". Despite the promise of this polymer in the field of conductive polymers, many of...
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    conducting polymers, which is nearly comparable with metallic conductors, only starts when the polymers are doped oxidatively or reductively. A polymer electrolyte...
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    Polyethylene glycol (category Polymers)
    build up and have a toxic effect. The size of the PEG polymer is important, with larger polymers achieving the best immune protection. PEG is a component...
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