Issue 74, 2016
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Chemical Communications

A surface-grafted thermoresponsive hydrogel in which the surface structure dominates the bulk properties†

Ko Matsukawa,a   Tsukuru Masuda,a   Aya Mizutani Akimoto*a  and  Ryo Yoshida*a  

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a Department of Materials Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
E-mail: akimoto@cross.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp, ryo@cross.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Abstract

A surface-grafted hydrogel was successfully synthesized by immobilization of the ATRP initiator at the surface region of the gel and the subsequent ARGET ATRP step. This is the first example of a bulk hydrogel with a dense surface-localized layer of a grafted polymer and “active” permeation control of the gel.

Graphical abstract: A surface-grafted thermoresponsive hydrogel in which the surface structure dominates the bulk properties

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC04307K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
23 May 2016
Accepted
21 Jul 2016
First published
25 Jul 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 11064-11067

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A surface-grafted thermoresponsive hydrogel in which the surface structure dominates the bulk properties

K. Matsukawa, T. Masuda, A. M. Akimoto and R. Yoshida, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 11064 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC04307K

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