There has been concerted effort across scientific disciplines to develop artificial materials and systems that can help researchers understand natural stimuli-responsive activities. With its up-to-date coverage on intelligent stimuli-responsive materials, Intelligent Stimuli-Responsive Materials provides research, industry, and academia professionals with the fundamentals and principles of intelligent stimuli-responsive materials, with a focus on methods and applications. Emphasizing nanostructures and applications for a broad range of fields, each chapter comprehensively covers a different stimuli-responsive material and discusses its developments, advances, challenges, analytical techniques, and applications.
Table of Content
Preface vii
Contributors ix
1 Nature-Inspired Stimuli-Responsive Self-Folding Materials
1
Leonid Ionov
2 Stimuli-Responsive Nanostructures from Self-Assembly of
Rigid-Flexible Block Molecules 17
Yongju Kim, Taehoon Kim, and Myongsoo Lee
3 Stimuli-Directed Alignment Control of Semiconducting
Discotic Liquid Crystalline Nanostructures 55
Hari Krishna Bisoyi and Quan Li
4 Anion-Driven Supramolecular Self-Assembled Materials
115
Hiromitsu Maeda
5 Photoresponsive Cholesteric Liquid Crystals 141
Yannian Li and Quan Li
6 Electric- and Light-Responsive Bent-Core Liquid Crystals:
From Molecular Architecture and Supramolecular Nanostructures to
Applications 189
Yongqiang Zhang
7 Photomechanical Liquid Crystalline Polymers:Motion in
Response to Light 233
Haifeng Yu and Quan Li
8 Responsive Nanoporous Silica Colloidal Films and Membranes
265
Amir Khabibullin and Ilya Zharov
9 Stimuli-Responsive Smart Organic Hybrid Metal Nanoparticles
293
Chenming Xue and Quan Li
10 Biologically Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels 335
Akifumi Kawamura and Takashi Miyata
11 Biomimetic Self-Oscillating Polymer Gels 363
Ryo Yoshida
12 Stimuli-Responsive Surfaces in Biomedical Applications
377
Alice Pranzetti, Jon A. Preece, and Paula M. Mendes
13 Stimuli-Responsive Conjugated Polymers: From Electronic
Noses to Artificial Muscles 423
Astha Malhotra, Matthew Mc Innis, Jordan Anderson, and Lei
Zhai
Index 471
About the author
QUAN LI, Ph D, is Director of the Organic Synthesis and Advanced Materials Laboratory of the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University, where he is also Adjunct Professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program. He has directed research projects supported by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), U.S. Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (Do D MURI), U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and U.S. National Science Foundation, among other funding institutions.
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