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

Chem Commun (Camb)

Department of Life, Environment and Materials Science, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, 3-30-1, Wajiro-Higashi, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan.

Published: February 2013

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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