ABSTRACT
300Poly(2-hydroxyethyl) methacrylate itself and copolymers have become the important class of biomaterials due to their biocompatibility, hydrophilicity, and nontoxicity. 2-Hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) can be used for making unique materials, like hyperbranched, stereogradient, and stimuliresponsive polymers. HEMA polymerizes easily by free-radical polymerization, but other types of polymerization can, also, be applied, for example, anionic polymerization.
