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Fabrication of doubly responsive polymer functionalized silica nanoparticles via a simple thiol–ene click chemistry Yohei Kotsuchibashi, Mitsuhiro Ebara, Takao Aoyagi and Ravin Narain aBiomaterials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan bDepartment of Chemical and Materials Engineering and Alberta Glycomics Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G2G6, Canada. E-mail: narain@ualberta.ca; Fax: +1-780-492-2881; Tel: +1- 780-492-1736 cJapan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 8 Ichibancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-8472, Japan dGraduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1- 1-1 Tenodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8571, Japan