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Recent advances and challenges in designing stimuli-responsive polymers
Fang Liu,Marek W. Urban +1 more
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In this article, a review examines physico-chemical requirements necessary to achieve stimuli-responsiveness in heterogeneous polymer networks as well as discusses recent developments and future trends while individual structural components of polymeric networks are responsible for localized chainresponsiveness, desirable spatial and energetic network properties are necessary for collective and orchestrated responsiveness to external or internal stimuli.About:
This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 866 citations till now.read more
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Intelligently Actuating Liquid Crystal Elastomer‐Carbon Nanotube Composites
Hyun Kim,Jae Ah Lee,Cedric P. Ambulo,Ha Beom Lee,Ha Beom Lee,Shi Hyeong Kim,Shi Hyeong Kim,Vinay V. Naik,Carter S. Haines,Ali E. Aliev,Raquel Ovalle-Robles,Ray H. Baughman,Taylor H. Ware +12 more
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Shape memory effects in self-healing polymers
Chris C. Hornat,Marek W. Urban +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the shape memory effect (SME) in polymers and its contribution to self-healing is discussed. But the focus of this paper is not on shape memory but on energy storage and release during the damage-repair cycle.
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Block copolymer self-assembly controlled by the “green” gas stimulus of carbon dioxide
Qiang Yan,Yue Zhao +1 more
TL;DR: This Feature Article reviews the recent development of using carbon dioxide (CO2) as a stimulus for tuning or controlling block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly and shows that a series of CO2-responsive functionalities can easily be incorporated into BCP structures, and that rationally designed BCPs can have their self-assembled structures undergo drastic changes in size, shape, morphology and function.
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Reversible switching transitions of stimuli-responsive shape changing polymers
Harper Meng,Guoqiang Li +1 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the various reversible switching transitions and recent progress in stimuli-responsive shape changing polymers is presented in this paper, where the advantages and limitations of various stimuliresponsive polymers are discussed.
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Photo‐control of biological systems with azobenzene polymers
TL;DR: Azobenzene-containing polymers offer tremendous advantages and opportunities over other stimuli-responsive materials to interface with biology as mentioned in this paper and have been used in a variety of biologically themed applications.
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