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. 2018 Jan 31;8:1963. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-20385-2

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Effects of the chemical composition of photo-curable resin on temperature responsive swelling of PNIPAAm. (a) Low temperature swelling of PNIPAAm is determined by the molar ratio of cross-linker to NIPAAm monomer. (b) High temperature shrinkage of PNIPAAm is determined by the NIPAAm concentration. Solid and dashed lines are for the samples fabricated using PμSL and a UV oven, respectively. Blue and red lines are for the swelling ratio at 10 °C and 50 °C, respectively. The photo images show the size of corresponding PNIPAAm disk samples at 10 °C and 50 °C. All scale bars indicate 1 mm.