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724459

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), carboxylic acid terminated

average Mn 10,000

Synonym(s):

NIPAM polymer, PNIPAM-COOH, Polyacrylamide, functionalized polyNIPAM, functionalized polyacrylamide, polyNIPAM

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Linear Formula:
(C6H11NO)nSCH2CH2CO2H
NACRES:
NA.23
UNSPSC Code:
12162002

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Product Name

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), carboxylic acid terminated, average Mn 10,000

form

powder

mol wt

average Mn 10,000 by GPC (THF w/ 5%TEA, PS, RI)
average Mn 10,000

mp

>300 °C

Quality Level

100

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Application

PNIPAM-based Smart Surfaces for Cell Sheet Tissue Engineering
Novel polymer for development of thermosensitive coated micro/nano materials including thermoresponsive polymeric drug delivery systems. The carboxylic acid functional group can be used to conjugate a variety of biomolecules to the polymer chain.

Storage Class

11 - Combustible Solids

wgk

WGK 1

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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Umut Atakan Gurkan et al.
Advanced healthcare materials, 1(5), 661-668 (2012-11-28)
Stimuli responsive, smart interface materials are integrated with microfluidic technologies creating new functions for a broad range of biological and clinical applications by controlling the material and cell interactions. Local capture and on-demand local release of cells are demonstrated with
Avraham Halperin et al.
Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 28(48), 16623-16637 (2012-11-06)
Thermoresponsive tissue culture substrates based on PNIPAM brushes are used to harvest confluent cell sheets for tissue engineering. The prospect of clinical use imposes the utilization of culture medium free of bovine serum, thus suggesting conjugation with adhesion peptides containing
Maria E Nash et al.
Stem cell reviews, 9(2), 148-157 (2013-01-29)
The facile regeneration of undifferentiated human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) from thermoresponsive surfaces facilitates the collection of stem cells avoiding the use of animal derived cell detachment agents commonly used in cell culture. This communication proposes a procedure to fabricate
Tatiya Trongsatitkul et al.
Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces, 103, 244-252 (2012-12-04)
The effect of PEGylation on the thermal response and protein adsorption resistance of crosslinked PNIPAm microgels was investigated. It was found that the presence of PEG, its molecular weight (M(n) 300 and 1100 g/mol) and its concentration (10, 20, and
Matteo D'Este et al.
Carbohydrate polymers, 90(3), 1378-1385 (2012-09-04)
An efficient and scale-up ready single-step synthesis for the conjugation of thermoresponsive polymers to hyaluronic acid (HA) was established. Jeffamines(®) (JFM) and poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) were grafted to HA via direct amidation mediated by 1,1'-carbonyldiimidazole activation. The temperature-induced gelation of the
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