Thermo-Reversible Properties of Surface Immobilized Hydrogels Based on Poly(Nalkylacrylamide)-g-Poly(ethyleneglycol)

摘要

Thermo-responsive polymers are of great interest in various applications like microvalves, biosensors, and cell cultivation. The socalled lower critical solution temperature (LCST) is a thermally induced volume phase transition temperature, where the polymer becomes insoluble above this temperature.