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US 2014/0005341 A1Published application
Degradable polymers, methods of making the same, and uses thereof
AssigneeUniversity of South Carolina
InventorsChuanbing Tang, Kejian Yao
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Abstract
The present invention relates generally to degradable polymers, including degradable polymers that may be responsive to ionic strength. The invention also relates generally to methods of making degradable polymers and methods of using such polymers.
Claims20
A degradable stimuli-responsive polymer, wherein the polymer is responsive to ionic strength.
A method for preparing a stimuli-responsive copolymer comprising:
- co-polymerizing at least two monomers using a ring-opening polymerization to form a copolymer;
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- attaching a charged moiety to the copolymer using a coupling reaction, thereby preparing the stimuli-responsive copolymer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.