Intelligent Stimuli-Responsive Materials: From Well-Defined Nanostructures to Applications

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.

Keywords: Thin Films, Surfaces & Interfaces, Intelligent Stimuli-Responsive Materials, Quan Li, smart polymers, polymer sciences, organic chemistry, liquid crystals, materials science, bioscience, materials engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, photonics, optic-electronics, nanotechnology, renewable energy, green chemistry, electric-field simulated switching, stimuli-responsive liquid crystal gels, supramolecular nanostructures with multifarious functionalities, nature-inspired stimuli-responsive polymers, bioinspired intelligent nanostructured interfacial materials, stimuli-responsive surfaces