Recent Advances in Metal‐Containing Polymer Hydrogels

Abstract

Metal-containing polymer hydrogels have attracted increasing interest in recent years due to their outstanding properties such as biocompatibility, recoverability, self-healing, and/or redox activity. In this short review, methods for the preparation of metal-containing polymer hydrogels are introduced and an overview of these hydrogels with various functionalities is given. It is hoped that this short update can stimulate innovative ideas to promote the research of metal-containing hydrogels in the communities.

Recent advances in metallopolymer-based drug delivery systems

“…Metallopolymers (MPs) or metal-containing polymers are one of the main classes of polymers discovered in the 20th century. [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] Various locations of metal centers from main group metals to transition metals and lanthanides relative to the polymer backbone were described by Wolf as Type I, Type II or Type III ( Fig. 1), in which the metal center is either tethered to the polymer backbone by an organic linker, either covalently coupled to the backbone, or directly included in the polymer backbone, respectively.…”

Thermal, dielectric and catalytic behavior of palladium doped PVC films

“…Efforts to develop composite materials in order to achieve exceptional characteristics different from the individual components have been in practice from decades by scientific community [1,2] . Polymer metal composites/nanocomposites have been spread their interest as catalysts in modern organic synthesis [3] , they have been widely used in aerospace and automobile industry, their properties are still being researched by tuning in electronic, sensors and catalytic applications [4][5][6] . Recent developments in solid ionic conductors, polymer electrolytes and intercalation materials have drawn keen interest from the researchers working in the field of plastic crystal ionic batteries, solid state galvanic cells and interfacial responsive sensory/electrical equipments [7][8][9] .…”

Recent Trends in Metallopolymer Design: Redox‐Controlled Surfaces, Porous Membranes, and Switchable Optical Materials Using Ferrocene‐Containing Polymers

“…for nanolithography), [14] or (hydro)gels based on ferrocene-containing metallopolymers. [19,20] Readers are referred to corresponding recent review articles and book chapters by Tritschler et al, [21] Yiue tal., [14] Wu et al, [19] and Li et al, [20] respectively. Scheme1.Generalhierarchicala rchitectures for metallopolymers discussed within this Minireview starting from ferrocene-containing polymers having the ferrocene moiety as part of the polymer side-chainora si ntegral part of the polymer main-chain (A).…”