TY - GEN
T1 - Synthesis of janus microhydrogels with anisotropic thermo-responsiveness and organophilic/hydrophilc lodading capability
AU - Seo, K. D.
AU - Doh, J.
AU - Choi, D.
AU - La, M.
AU - Kim, D. S.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - We report novel Janus microhydrogels composed of the entirely same base material but having different characteristics, such as anisotropic thermo-responsiveness and organophilic/hydrophilic loading capability. The Janus microdroplets are generated in a microchannel based on the phase separation of supersaturated aqueous Nisopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) solution, and the resulting microdroplets can be rapidly photopolymerized in situ to give Janus microhydrogels. Our approach prevents the cross-mixing between two pairs of Janus microdroplets, and thus, allows to synthesize Janus microhydrogels with distinct compartmentalized structures in a one-step manner.
AB - We report novel Janus microhydrogels composed of the entirely same base material but having different characteristics, such as anisotropic thermo-responsiveness and organophilic/hydrophilic loading capability. The Janus microdroplets are generated in a microchannel based on the phase separation of supersaturated aqueous Nisopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) solution, and the resulting microdroplets can be rapidly photopolymerized in situ to give Janus microhydrogels. Our approach prevents the cross-mixing between two pairs of Janus microdroplets, and thus, allows to synthesize Janus microhydrogels with distinct compartmentalized structures in a one-step manner.
KW - Janus microhydrogels
KW - N-isopropylacrylamide
KW - Phase separation
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84907303713
SN - 9781632666246
T3 - 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2013
SP - 152
EP - 154
BT - 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2013
PB - Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society
T2 - 17th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2013
Y2 - 27 October 2013 through 31 October 2013
ER -