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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Mater Chem B. 2020 Jun 17;8(31):6588–6609. doi: 10.1039/d0tb00681e

Figure 3. Stimuli-responsive polymer thin films for the design of smart membranes.

Figure 3.

Mechanisms of membrane flux regulation in response to (A) pH and (B) temperature changes, enabled by thin films of pMAA-co-EGDMA and pDMAEMA-co-EGDA respectively. (C) pH-responsive flux changes of BSA through filtration membranes coated with pMAA-co-EGDMA.112 Reprinted from Smart membranes with pH-responsive control of macromolecule permeability, 537, Ali Tufani, Gozde Ozaydin-Ince, 255-262, 2017, with permission from Elsevier. (D) Swelling ratios of pDMAEMA-co-EGDA hydrogels with different compositions (r indicates the molar ratio of EGDA to DMAEMA) under different temperatures.60 Reproduced from Ref. 60 with permission from The Royal Society of Chemistry.