Molecules (Aug 2019)
Special Issue: “Smart and Functional Polymers”
- Xiangru Feng,
- Mingqiang Li,
- Yang Li,
- Jianxun Ding
Affiliations
- Xiangru Feng
- Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China
- Mingqiang Li
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 116th and Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA
- Yang Li
- Laboratory for Biomaterials and Drug Delivery, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Jianxun Ding
- Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24162976
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 24,
no. 16
p. 2976
Abstract
Polymerization provides an efficient strategy for synthesizing macromolecules with versatile functionality [...]
Keywords
- polymerization or post-polymerization modification methods
- polymer-based supramolecular chemistry
- stimuli-responsive polymers
- shape memory polymers
- self-healing polymers
- polymers for industrial catalysis
- polymers for water or effluent treatment
- polymers for sensing, separation, and purification
- polymers for fabrication
- renewable polymer materials used for agriculture
- functional polymers used in food science
- polymers for information storage, electronics, and energy conversion
- functional polymers for diagnosis, imaging, drug delivery, and tissue engineering
- polymers with biological activity (e.g., antitumor, antidiabetic, and antimicrobial activity)
- polymer-based medical devices
