title: Temperature responsive lipid liquid crystal layers with embedded nanogels.
abstract: Polymer nanogels are embedded within layers consisting of a nonlamellar liquid crystalline lipid phase to act as thermoresponsive controllers of layer compactness and hydration. As the nanogels change from the swollen to the collapsed state via a temperature trigger, they enable on-demand release of water from the mixed polymer-lipid layer while the lipid matrix remains intact. Combining stimuli-responsive polymers with responsive lipid-based mesophase systems opens up new routes in biomedical applications such as functional biomaterials, bioanalysis and drug delivery.
authors.affiliation: Division of Physical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden. aleksandra.dabkowska@fkem1.lu.se tommy.nylander@fkem1.lu.se.
authors.forename: A P
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2029-9156
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Dabkowska
authors.affiliation: Division of Physical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden. aleksandra.dabkowska@fkem1.lu.se tommy.nylander@fkem1.lu.se.
authors.forename: C
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authors.lastname: Hirst
authors.affiliation: Division of Physical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden. aleksandra.dabkowska@fkem1.lu.se tommy.nylander@fkem1.lu.se.
authors.forename: M
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8262-7039
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authors.lastname: Valldeperas
authors.affiliation: ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Source, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 OQX, UK.
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authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Clifton
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Italy and CSGI, Florence, Italy.
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authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6960-3772
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Montis
authors.affiliation: Division of Physical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden. aleksandra.dabkowska@fkem1.lu.se tommy.nylander@fkem1.lu.se.
authors.forename: S
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authors.lastname: Nöjd
authors.affiliation: Division of Physical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden. aleksandra.dabkowska@fkem1.lu.se tommy.nylander@fkem1.lu.se.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gentile
authors.affiliation: Division of Physical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden. aleksandra.dabkowska@fkem1.lu.se tommy.nylander@fkem1.lu.se.
authors.forename: M
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authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Institut Laue Langevin, France and Department of Physics, Uppsala University, Box 530, SE-751 21 Uppsala, Sweden.
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authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Pálsson
authors.affiliation: Max IV Laboratory, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden and Crystallography and Structure Physics, Physics Department, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lages
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Italy and CSGI, Florence, Italy.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Berti
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, SE-20506, Malmö, Sweden and Camurus AB, Ideon Science Park, Gamma Building, Sölvegatan 41, SE-22379 Lund, Sweden.
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authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barauskas
authors.affiliation: Division of Physical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden. aleksandra.dabkowska@fkem1.lu.se tommy.nylander@fkem1.lu.se.
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authors.initials: T
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