Tuning the lower critical solution temperature of thermoresponsive polymers by biospecific recognition
- A thermosensitive statistical copolymer based on oligo(ethylene glycol) methacrylates incorporating biotin was synthesized by free radical copolymerisation. The influence of added avidin on its thermoresponsive behaviour was investigated. The specific binding of avidin to the biotinylated copolymers provoked a marked increase of the lower critical solution temperature.
| Author details: | Jens Buller, André LaschewskyORCiDGND, Jean-Francois Lutz, Erik Wischerhoff |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1039/c1py00001b |
| ISSN: | 1759-9954 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Polymer Chemistry |
| Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Place of publishing: | Cambridge |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2011 |
| Publication year: | 2011 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 7 |
| Number of pages: | 4 |
| First page: | 1486 |
| Last Page: | 1489 |
| Funding institution: | The initiative "Spitzenforschung & Innovation in den neuen Landern" of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [03152201] |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Chemie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
