Hydrogel compositions including a polymer uniformly embedded with a loading agent are provided. Also provided are methods for extrusion printing hydrogel compositions to provide extruded hydrogel compositions, which can be crosslinked to provide crosslinked hydrogel structures. Also provided are methods for using crosslinked hydrogel structures in chemical processes.

The invention contemplates certain polyethers, polyether derivatives, and methods of making and using those same polymers. For example, the starting materials can, e.g., citronellol, prenol, isocitronellol and isoprenol.

Disclosed herein are glycidol-based polymers, nanoparticles, and methods related thereto useful for a variety of applications, including, but not limited to, drug delivery. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.

A fluoropolymer having fluoropolyether linkages, at least two ester linkages, and hydrolyzable functional groups is represented by chemical structure (I): ##STR00001##
With respect to chemical structure (I), m is a number from 1 to 4 and n is a number from 10 to 60, each R.sup.1 is independently fluorine or CF.sub.3, R.sup.2 is an alkylene group, R.sup.3 is an alkylene group in which one or more hydrogens of the alkylene group are optionally substituted with fluorine, R.sup.4 is an alkyl group in which one or more hydrogens of the alkyl group are substituted with fluorine, R.sup.5 is an alkylene group in which at least one hydrogen of the alkylene group is substituted with a group comprising CF.sub.3, CF.sub.2H, or a hydrolyzable silyl group, and Z is a group represented by chemical structure (II), ##STR00002##
Methods of preparing the fluoropolymer and coating compositions containing the fluoropolymer are also included.

To provide a hydrophilic polymer derivative having a novel linker technique which is able to from a hydrophilic polymer pro-drug of a drug containing an amino group or the like in order to overcome the restrictions of conventional hydrophilic polymer pro-drugs. A hydrophilic polymer derivative containing a hydrophilic polymer moiety and an acetal moiety, wherein the hydrophilic polymer derivative contains a structure represented by formula (1) or formula (2):

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The invention contemplates certain polyethers, polyether derivatives, and methods of making and using those same polymers. For example, the starting materials can, e.g., citronellol, prenol, isocitronellol and isoprenol.

A method of producing a polyether polyol includes reacting a low molecular weight initiator with ethylene oxide in the presence of a polymerization catalyst, and the low molecular weight initiator has a nominal hydroxyl functionality at least 2. The polymerization catalyst is a Lewis acid catalyst having the general formula M(R.sup.1).sub.1(R.sup.2).sub.1(R.sup.3).sub.1(R.sup.4)0 or 1, whereas M is boron, aluminum, indium, bismuth or erbium, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 are each independent, R.sup.1 includes a fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group, R.sup.2 incudes a fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group or a fluoro/chloro-substituted phenyl group, R.sup.3 includes a fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group or a fluoro/chloro-substituted phenyl group, and optional R.sup.4 includes a functional group or functional polymer group, R.sup.1 being different from at least one of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3.

A fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the following formula is provided. R.sup.1CH.sub.2R.sup.2CH.sub.2R.sup.3CH.sub.2R.sup.4CH.sub.2R.sup.5

(In the formula, R.sup.3 is a divalent organic group containing at least one polar group and an alicyclic structure having 3 to 13 carbons, and does not contain a perfluoropolyether chain, R.sup.2 and R.sup.4 are perfluoropolyether chains, and R.sup.1 and R.sup.5 are terminal groups containing two or three polar groups, in which individual polar groups are bound to different carbon atoms and the carbon atoms to which the polar groups are bound are bound to each other via a linking group containing a carbon atom to which the polar groups are not bound.)

A method of producing an alcohol ethoxylate surfactant or lubricant, the method including reacting a low molecular weight initiator with ethylene oxide in the presence of a polymerization catalyst, the low molecular weight initiator having a nominal hydroxyl functionality at least 1, and the polymerization catalyst being a Lewis acid catalyst having the general formula M(R.sup.1).sub.I(R.sup.2).sub.I(R.sup.3).sub.I(R.sup.4).sub.0 or 1, whereas M is boron, aluminum, indium, bismuth or erbium, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 are each independent, R.sup.1 includes a first fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group, R.sup.2 includes a second fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group or a first fluoro/chloro-substituted phenyl group, R.sup.3 includes a third fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group or a second fluoro/chloro-substituted phenyl group, and optional R.sup.4 includes a functional group or functional polymer group, R.sup.1 being different from at least one of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3. The method further including forming an alcohol ethoxylate surfactant or lubricant having a number average molecular weight of greater than the number average molecular weight of the low molecular weight initiator in the presence of the Lewis acid catalyst.

A method of producing a polyether polyol includes reacting a low molecular weight initiator with one or more monomers in the presence of a polymerization catalyst, and the low molecular weight initiator has a nominal hydroxyl functionality of at least 2. The one or more monomers includes at least one selected from propylene oxide and butylene oxide. The polymerization catalyst is a Lewis acid catalyst having the general formula M(R.sup.1)1(R.sup.2)1(R.sup.3)1(R.sup.4)0 or 1, whereas M is boron, aluminum, indium, bismuth or erbium, R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 are each independent, R.sup.1 includes a fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group, R.sup.2 incudes a fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group or a fluoro/chloro-substituted phenyl group, R.sup.3 includes a fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group or a fluoro/chloro-substituted phenyl group, and optional R.sup.4 includes a functional group or functional polymer group, R.sup.1 being different from at least one of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3.