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

doi:10.1039/c2cc36654a

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

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Feb 4;49(11):1082-4. doi: 10.1039/c2cc36654a.

Authors

Nobuyoshi Miyamoto¹, Morio Shintate, Shogo Ikeda, Yasutomo Hoshida, Yusuke Yamauchi, Ryuhei Motokawa, Masahiko Annaka

Affiliation

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

PMID: 23283288
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc36654a

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.