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  • Title: Controlling Properties and Functions of Polymer Gels Using Photochemical Reactions.
    Author: Cao J, Zhang D, Zhou Y, Zhang Q, Wu S.
    Journal: Macromol Rapid Commun; 2022 Feb; 43(4):e2100703. PubMed ID: 35038195.
    Abstract:
    Photoresponsive polymer gels have attracted increasing interest owing to their potential applications in healable materials, drug release systems, and extracellular matrices. Because polymer gels provide suitable environments for photochemical reactions, their properties and functions can be controlled with light with a high spatiotemporal resolution. Herein, the design of photoresponsive polymer gels based on different types of photochemical reactions is introduced. The mechanism and applications of irreversible photoreactions, such as photoinduced free-radical polymerization, photoinduced click reactions, and photolysis, as well as reversible photoreactions such as photoinduced reversible cycloadditions, reversible photosubstitution of metal complexes, and photoinduced metathesis are reviewed. The remaining challenges of photoresponsive polymer gels are also discussed.
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