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BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
Volume 81, Issue 6, Pages 676-688Publisher
CHEMICAL SOC JAPAN
DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.81.676
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Stimuli-responsive polymers and their application to biomaterials have been widely studied. On the other hand, as a novel biomimetic polymer, we have been studying a polymer with an autonomous self-oscillating function by utilizing oscillating chemical reactions. So far, we have succeeded in developing a novel self-oscillating polymer and gels by utilizing the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. The self-oscillating polymer is composed of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAAm), in which Ru(bpy)(3)(2+) is incorporated as a catalyst for the BZ reaction. Under the coexistence of the reactants (malonic acid, sodium bromate, and nitric acid), the polymer undergoes spontaneous cyclic soluble-insoluble changes or swelling-deswelling changes (in the case of gel) without any on-off switching of external stimuli. In this paper, our recent studies on the self-oscillating polymer and the design of functional material systems using the polymer are summarized.
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