Responsive Materials and Methods: State-of-the-Art Stimuli-Responsive Materials and Their Applications [Hardcover]

The development of finely-tuned materials that adjust in a predictable manner by specific environment change is the recent arena of materials research. It is a newly emerging supra-disciplinary field with huge commercial potential. Stimuli-responsive materials answer by a considerable change in their properties to small changes in their environment. Responsive materials are becoming increasingly more prevalent as scientists learn about the chemistry and triggers that induce conformational changes in materials structures and devise ways to take advantage of and control them. Responsive Materials and Method offers state-of-the-art of the stimuli-responsive materials and their potential applications.

This collection brings together novel methodologies and strategies adopted in the research and development of responsive materials and technology.

Preface xiii

PART 1 Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Materials 1

1 Smart Thermoresponsive Biomaterials 3
Mohammed Yaseen and Jian R. Lu

1.1 Introduction 3

1.2 Temperature-Responsive Polymers 5

1.3 Development of Thermoresponsive Surfaces 10

1.4 Surface Characterization 15

1.5 Cell Culture and Tissue Engineering Applications 16

1.6 Chromatography 20

1.7 Conclusion 22

References 22

2 Light-Triggered Azobenzenes: From Molecular Architecture to Functional Materials 27
Jaume Garcia-Amor?s and Dolores Velasco

2.1 Why Light-Triggered Materials? 28

2.2 Azobenzene-Based Light-Activatable Materials 29

2.3 Photoswitchable Azobenzene-Based Materials 31

2.4 Photodeformable Azobenzene-Based Materials:Artil“