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Stimuli-responsive polymers

Engineering interactions

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Materials that respond to their external environment require creative molecular design — much inspiration comes from the natural world.

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Figure 1: The molecular transport of a dye, ethidium bromide that fluoresces orange–red, from polymer vesicles (mean diameter 500 nm) to bacteria cells (Escherichia coli).
Figure 2: Two approaches for the preparation of protein–polymer conjugates by controlled radical polymerization.

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  1. Alshakim Nelson is at the IBM Almaden Research Center, California 95120, USA. alshak@us.ibm.com,

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Nelson, A. Engineering interactions. Nature Mater 7, 523–525 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2214

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