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

410

Hot Topics in Polymer Science in SPSJ

414

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	416
Drug Delivery System Controlled by Near-Infrared Light	Takuro NIIDOME	420
Magnetoresponsive Nanohybrid Materials for Potential Biomedical Applications	Kiyofumi KATAGIRI, Yoshihiro SASAKI	423

PolyMANGA

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COVER STORY: Topics and Products

Stimulation-Responsive Structural Change of Water-Soluble Polyanilines	Toru AMAYA, Toshikazu HIRAO	427
Ureido Polymers Showing UCST-Type Phase Separation Behavior	Naohiko SHIMADA, Atsushi MARUYAMA	429
Target Molecule-Responsive Gel Particles	Akifumi KAWAMURA	431

Polymer Science and I: A Personal Account

Young Scientist’s Manners

Keiji NUMATA

433

Messages: “Work and Life”

Look Back on the Surmounting Hump of Child Rearing

Akiko KOITO

434

Front-Line Polymer Science

Cutting Edge of DDS Research for Immunotherapy

Eiji YUBA, Atsushi HARADA, Kenji KONO

435

From My Bookshelf

Yukio IMANISHI / Hiroaki IMOTO

441

PolySCHOLA

Yosuke WATANABE / Hideaki TAMATE / Hidemitsu FURUKAWA

442

Messages from SPSJ

445

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