Progress in the Application of Environmentally Responsive Polymers
Environmentally responsive polymers are also known as environmentally sensitive polymers and stimulus responsive polymers.When the external environment(temperature,pH,light,pressure,electromagnetism,etc.)stimulates the material,environment-responsive polymers will quickly respond in structure and physical and chemical properties,mainly manifested the changes of the hydrophilicity,solubility,conformation,chemical bond breaking etc.of the polymer chain segments in the molecular level.Environmentally responsive polymers are widely used in medical and wastewater treatment fields.This paper mainly summarizes the types of environment-responsive polymers,the mechanisms of environmental response and effect,and reviews the progress of the application of environment-responsive polymers in the fields of biology,medicine,chemical industry and so on.
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