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Liquid crystalline inorganic nanosheets for facile synthesis of polymer hydrogels with anisotropies in structure, optical property, swelling/deswelling, and ion transport/fixation

Nobuyoshi Miyamoto, Morio Shintate, Shogo Ikeda, Yasutomo Hoshida, Yusuke Yamauchi, Ryuhei Motokawa, Masahiko Annaka

Chemical Communications · 2013 · 77 citations · 50 references

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Abstract

Macroscopically anisotropic hydrogels were synthesized by hybridization of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) with liquid crystalline inorganic nanosheets; their anisotropies in the structure and properties are demonstrated.

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