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

by Li, Quan

• ISBN13: 9781118452004
• ISBN10: 1118452003
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-10-28
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Quan Li is Director of Organic Synthesis and Advanced Materials Laboratory at the Liquid Crystal Institute and Adjunct Professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program of Kent State University, where he has directed research projects supported by the National Science Foundation and other U.S. government agencies and several companies. He has edited 2 previous books Self-Organized Organic Semiconductors: From Materials to Device Applications and Liquid Crystals Beyond Displays: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, both published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Nature Inspired Stimuli Responsive Self-Folding Materials
Leonid Ionov

Chapter 2: Stimuli Responsive Nanostructures From Self-Assembly of Rigid-Flexible Block Molecules
Yongju Kim, Taehoon Kim, and Myongsoo Lee

Chapter 3: Stimuli Directed Alignment Control of Semiconducting Discotic Liquid Crystalline Nanostructures
Hari Bisoy and Quan Li

Chapter 4: Anion-Driven Supramolecular Self-Assembled Materials
Hiromitsu Maeda

Chapter 5: Photoresponsive Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Yannian Li and Quan Li

Chapter 6: Electric and Light Responsive Bent-Core Liquid Crystals: From Molecular Architecture and Supramolecular Nanostructures to Applications
Yongqiang Zhang

Chapter 7: Photomechanical Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Motion in Response to Light
Haifeng Yu and Quan Li

Chapter 8: Responsive Nanoporous Silica Colloidal Films and Membranes
Amir Khabibullin and Ilya Zharov

Chapter 9: Stimuli Responsive Smart Organic Hybrid Metal Nanoparticles
Chenming Xue and Quan Li

Chapter 10: Structural Design of Biologically Stimuli Responsive Hydrogels
Akifumi Kawamura and Takashi Miyata

Chapter 11: Biomimetic Self-Oscillating Polymer Gels
Ryo Yoshida

Chapter 12: Stimuli Responsive Surfaces in Biomedical Applications
A. Pranzetti, J. A. Preece, and Paula M Mendes

Chapter 13: Stimuli Responsive Conjugated Polymers: From Electronic Noses to Artificial Muscles
Astha Malhotra, Matthew McInnis, Jordan Anderson, and Lei Zhai