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Stimuli-Responsive Polymers

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Synonyms

Intelligent soft materials; Smart soft materials

Definition

Stimuli-responsive polymers are polymers which dramatically change their properties, e.g., solubility or viscoelasticity, in response to external stimuli, including temperature, pH, and chemicals.

Background

In these decades, smart or intelligent materials have drawn considerable interest from researchers in materials science. In these materials, polymers, which change their properties responsive to external stimuli, play a vital role [1, 2]. This entry describes briefly stimuli and responses for stimuli-responsive polymers and overviews some typical examples of stimuli-responsive polymers.

Stimuli and Responses

Stimuli

Stimuli for stimuli-responsive polymer include temperature, pressure, pH, chemicals, light, and redox [3].

Temperature is the most common stimulus for stimuli-responsive polymers. Because all physical and chemical events proceed to thermally stable states, all materials are active against heat, and...

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  1. Graduate School of Science, Department of Macromolecular Science, Osaka University, Machikaneyama, 560-0043, Toyonaka, Japan

    Akihito Hashidzume & Akira Harada

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  1. Akihito Hashidzume
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  1. Kyoto Institute of Technology R & D Center for Bio-Based Materials, Kyoto, Japan

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  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz, Germany

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Hashidzume, A., Harada, A. (2013). Stimuli-Responsive Polymers. In: Kobayashi, S., Müllen, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36199-9_48-1

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