Novel thermoresponsive polymers having biodegradable phosphoester backbones
Novel thermoresponsive polymers having biodegradable phosphoester backbones
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DOI:
10.1021/ma0715573
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发表时间:
2007-11-13
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5.5
通讯作者:
Akiyoshi, Kazunari
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作者:
Iwasaki, Yasuhiko;Wachiralarpphaithoon, Chookaet;Akiyoshi, Kazunari
Introduction. Thermoresponsive polymers are widely studied in both research and technology because of their versatility in many fields. Recent trends in polymer materials are drug delivery, 1 separation of bioactive molecules, 2 and tissue engineering. 3 N-substituted acrylamide polymers have been found to have a phase separation characteristic with changes occurring in their properties upon heating above a certain lower critical solution temperature (LCST). 4-6 In particular N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) is one of the best monomers for accomplishing this and the homopolymer has LCST at 32 C in aqueous solution. 7 NIPAAm can be applied to polymerization with a wide variety of comonomers and the LCST of the polymers can be controlled around physiological temperatures. 8, 9 Furthermore, living radical polymerization has recently been applied with NIPAAm for the preparation of smart polymers with welldefined structures. 10-12 Although NIPAAm is a robust monomer for obtaining thermoresponsive polymer materials such as stimuli-responsive surfaces, particles, and hydrogels, the polymers are not biodegradable.As well as a stimuli-responsive nature, biodegradability and biocompatibility are important characteristics for polymeric materials used in biomedical fields. While the thermoresponsivity of some biodegradable polymers such as aliphatic polyester block copolymers or polypeptides was recently proposed, 13-16 the molecular design and synthetic process of thermoresponsive biodegradable polymers are still limited. N-substituted acrylamide polymers are thus preferably studied. Recently, polyphosphoesters have appeared interesting for biological and pharmaceutical applications because of their biocompatibility and structural similarities to naturally occurring nucleic and teichoic acids. Polyphosphoesters have been proposed for use in the field of biomaterials. 17-20 A variety of synthetic routes for polyphosphoesters has been proposed including ring-opening polymerization, 21, 22 polycondensation, 23 transesterfication, 24, 25 and enzymatic polymerization. 26 There has