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Pickering Emulsions Stabilized by pH-Responsive Microgels and Their Scalable Transformation to Robust Submicrometer Colloidoisomes with Selective Permeability by Wang, Wenkai, Milani, Amir H, Cui, Zhengxing, Zhu, Mingning, Saunders, Brian R

“…Colloidosomes are micrometer-sized hollow particles that have shells consisting of coagulated or fused colloid particles. While many large colloidosomes with…”
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Comparing pH-responsive nanogel swelling in dispersion and inside a polyacrylamide gel using photoluminescence spectroscopy and small-angle neutron scattering by Zhu, Mingning, Lu, Dongdong, Milani, Amir H., Mahmoudi, Najet, King, Stephen M., Saunders, Brian R.

“…[Display omitted] Nanosized probes that report their changes in dimensions within networks in response to environmental stimuli are potentially important for…”
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Light-Triggered Programming of Hydrogel Properties Using Sleeping Photoactive Polymer Nanoparticles by Milani, Amir H, Saunders, Jennifer M, Nguyen, Nam T, Wu, Shanglin, Saunders, Brian R

“…A key characteristic of programmable hydrogels is that their physical and chemical properties can be changed postsynthetically. In order to achieve this, we…”
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Site-Directed Differentiation of Human Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Nucleus Pulposus Cells Using an Injectable Hydroxyl-Functional Diblock Copolymer Worm Gel by Binch, Abbie L. A, Ratcliffe, Liam P. D, Milani, Amir H, Saunders, Brian R, Armes, Steven P, Hoyland, Judith A

“…Adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ASCs) have been identified for their promising therapeutic potential to regenerate and repopulate the degenerate…”
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Highly Stretchable Conductive Covalent Coacervate Gels for Electronic Skin by Nguyen, Nam T., Jennings, James, Milani, Amir H., Martino, Chiara D. S., Nguyen, Linh T. B., Wu, Shanglin, Mokhtar, Muhamad Z., Saunders, Jennifer M., Gautrot, Julien E., Armes, Steven P., Saunders, Brian R.

“…Highly stretchable electrically conductive hydrogels have been extensively researched in recent years, especially for applications in strain and pressure…”
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Self-curing super-stretchable polymer/microgel complex coacervate gels without covalent bond formation by Wu, Shanglin, Zhu, Mingning, Lu, Dongdong, Milani, Amir H, Lian, Qing, Fielding, Lee A, Saunders, Brian R, Derry, Matthew J, Armes, Steven P, Adlam, Daman, Hoyland, Judith A

“…Elastic physical gels are highly desirable because they can be conveniently prepared and readily shaped. Unfortunately, many elastic physical gels prepared in…”
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Injectable Doubly Cross-Linked Microgels for Improving the Mechanical Properties of Degenerated Intervertebral Discs by Milani, Amir H, Freemont, Anthony J, Hoyland, Judith A, Adlam, Daman J, Saunders, Brian R

“…The use of injectable pH-responsive doubly cross-linked microgels (DX microgels) to improve the mechanical properties of degenerated intervertebral discs is…”
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Swelling and mechanical properties of hydrogels composed of binary blends of inter-linked pH-responsive microgel particles by Milani, Amir H, Bramhill, Jane, Freemont, Anthony J, Saunders, Brian R

“…We show that a new type of hydrogel can be prepared by covalently inter-linking binary blends of microgel (MG) particles and that the swelling ratio and…”
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Core–Shell–Shell Nanoparticles for NIR Fluorescence Imaging and NRET Swelling Reporting of Injectable or Implantable Gels by Shanks, Hannah R, Milani, Amir H, Lu, Dongdong, Saunders, Brian R, Carney, Louise, Adlam, Daman J, Hoyland, Judith A, Blount, Christopher, Dickinson, Mark

“…Injectable gels that support load are desirable for restoring the mechanical properties of degenerated load-bearing tissue. As these gels become increasingly…”
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Anisotropic pH-Responsive Hydrogels Containing Soft or Hard Rod-Like Particles Assembled Using Low Shear by Milani, Amir H, Fielding, Lee A, Greensmith, Polly, Saunders, Brian R, Adlam, Daman J, Freemont, Anthony J, Hoyland, Judith A, Hodson, Nigel W, Elsawy, Mohamed A, Miller, Aline F, Ratcliffe, Liam P. D, Mykhaylyk, Oleksandr O, Armes, Steven P

“…A simple and versatile low-shear approach for assembling hydrogels containing aligned rod-like particles (RLPs) that are birefringent and exhibit pH-triggered…”
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Responsive Nanogel Probe for Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensing of pH and Strain in Hydrogels by Zhu, Mingning, Lu, Dongdong, Wu, Shanglin, Lian, Qing, Wang, Wenkai, Milani, Amir H, Cui, Zhengxing, Nguyen, Nam T, Chen, Mu, Lyon, L. Andrew, Adlam, Daman J, Freemont, Anthony J, Hoyland, Judith A, Saunders, Brian R

“…In this study a new pH-responsive nanogel probe containing a complementary nonradiative resonance energy transfer (NRET) fluorophore pair is investigated and…”
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A Study of Physical and Covalent Hydrogels Containing pH-Responsive Microgel Particles and Graphene Oxide by Cui, Zhengxing, Milani, Amir H, Greensmith, Paula J, Yan, Junfeng, Adlam, Daman J, Hoyland, Judith A, Kinloch, Ian A, Freemont, Anthony J, Saunders, Brian R

“…In this study we mixed low concentrations of graphene oxide (GO) with microgel (MG) particles and formed composite doubly cross-linked microgels (DX MG/GO)…”
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Self-curing super-stretchable polymer/microgel complex coacervate gels without covalent bond formation† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI: 10.1039/c9sc02555c by Wu, Shanglin, Zhu, Mingning, Lu, Dongdong, Milani, Amir H., Lian, Qing, Fielding, Lee A., Saunders, Brian R., Derry, Matthew J., Armes, Steven P., Adlam, Daman, Hoyland, Judith A.

“…A new class of super-stretchable gel that does not involve covalent bonds being formed is introduced by mixing pre-formed pH-responsive microgel particles and…”
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