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Various thermally responsive polymers and their derivatives form colloidally stable nanosized particles upon heating of their aqueous solutions. A compilation of the types of polymers reported to exhibit this behaviour is presented in this review, including poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), poly(N-vinylcaprolactam), and poly(vinyl methyl ether) together with their copolymers with either hydrophobic or...
Protein-like copolymers were first predicted by computer-aided biomimetic design. These copolymers consist of comonomer units of differing hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity. Heterogeneous blockiness, inherent in such copolymers, promotes chain folding with the formation of specific spatial packing: a dense core consisting of hydrophobic units and a polar shell formed by hydrophilic units. This review...
A brief introduction into the principles of the statistical description of the chemical structure of linear heteropolymers is given. A comprehensive analysis of diffusion-controlled polymeranalogous reactions is provided in terms of the statistical chemistry and the statistical physics of polymers. The interplay of these two statistical approaches is conclusively demonstrated for the discussion of...
We review the development of ideas in polymer physics initially formulated by I.M. Lifshitz. We start with general issues in polymer statistics, such as the analogy with quantum mechanics, and then continue with globules and a variety of coil-globule transitions, ranging from toroidal DNA particles, superabsorbing gels, to orientational order in liquid-crystalline polymers. We pay major attention...
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