POLYMERS Vol.65 No.8
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COVER STORY
“Intelligent” Stimuli-Responsive Water Soluble Polymers
Various kinds of stimuli-responsive water soluble polymers have been designed and prepared for some time now. External stimuli trigger changes in the physical and associative properties of the polymers. Such stimuli include temperature, pH, light, magnetic or electric fields, salinity, or the presence of specific chemicals. Recent developments in polymer design and synthesis methods have made it possible to prepare novel water-soluble polymers that show not only responsive behavior to a single stimulus but are capable of complex responses to multiple stimuli. Numerous such stimuli-responsive ‘intelligent’ polymers have now been created. In this issue, we introduce the development of recent stimuli-responsive water-soluble polymers.
Editors: YUSA, KASHIDA, KANAOKA, SANDA and NAGASAKI

Messages from 33rd President
What a Vigorous Future by Polymer Science! Yoshiki CHUJO
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Digest for English Readers
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Hot Topics in Polymer Science in SPSJ
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Commentary
My Lucky Encounter with Stimuli-Responsive Polymers Sadahito AOSHIMA
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COVER STORY: Highlight Reviews
Development of Stimuli Responsible Water-Soluble Functional Polymers for Biomedical Purpose: Creating Ischemia Cell Specific Oligonucleotide Therapeutics System with Environment-Responsive Peptide Ribonucleic Acids (PRNAs) Takehiko WADA
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Drug Delivery System Controlled by Near-Infrared Light Takuro NIIDOME
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Magnetoresponsive Nanohybrid Materials for Potential Biomedical Applications Kiyofumi KATAGIRI, Yoshihiro SASAKI
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PolyMANGA
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COVER STORY: Topics and Products
Stimulation-Responsive Structural Change of Water-Soluble Polyanilines Toru AMAYA, Toshikazu HIRAO
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Ureido Polymers Showing UCST-Type Phase Separation Behavior Naohiko SHIMADA, Atsushi MARUYAMA
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Target Molecule-Responsive Gel Particles Akifumi KAWAMURA
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Polymer Science and I: A Personal Account
Young Scientist’s Manners Keiji NUMATA
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Messages: “Work and Life”
Look Back on the Surmounting Hump of Child Rearing Akiko KOITO
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Front-Line Polymer Science
Cutting Edge of DDS Research for Immunotherapy Eiji YUBA, Atsushi HARADA, Kenji KONO
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From My Bookshelf Yukio IMANISHI / Hiroaki IMOTO
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PolySCHOLA Yosuke WATANABE / Hideaki TAMATE / Hidemitsu FURUKAWA
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Messages from SPSJ
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