Transiently thermally responsive surfaces: Concepts for cell sheet engineering

Stimuli-sensitive or smart polymers are a most important class of soft materials which transiently adapt their physical and/or chemical properties upon small changes in the external environment. Given that, these polymers increasingly utilize in biorelated applications such as drug and gene delivery, biosensing, tissue regeneration and cell sheet engineering. Based on the type of response stimulus, smart polymers are divided into pH,...