Intelligent stimuli-responsive materials : from well-defined nanostructures to applications

Preface . . vii
Contributors . . ix

1 Nature-Inspired Stimuli-Responsive Self-Folding Materials . . 1
2 Stimuli-Responsive Nanostructures from Self-Assembly of Rigid-Flexible Block Molecules . . 17
3 Stimuli-Directed Alignment Control of Semiconducting Discotic Liquid Crystalline Nanostructures . . 55
4 Anion-Driven Supramolecular Self-Assembled Materials . . 115
5 Photoresponsive Cholesteric Liquid Crystals . . 141
6 Electric- and Light-Responsive Bent-Core Liquid Crystals: From Molecular Architecture and Supramolecular Nanostructures to Applications . . 189
7 Photomechanical Liquid Crystalline Polymers: Motion in Response to Light . . 233
8 Responsive Nanoporous Silica Colloidal Films and Membranes . . 265
9 Stimuli-Responsive Smart Organic Hybrid Metal Nanoparticles . . 293
10 Biologically Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels . . 335
11 Biomimetic Self-Oscillating Polymer Gels . . 363
12 Stimuli-Responsive Surfaces in Biomedical Applications . . 377
13 Stimuli-Responsive Conjugated Polymers: From Electronic Noses to Artificial Muscles . . 423

Index . . 471