Stimulus-responsive energy storage devices, which can respond to external stimuli, such as heat, pH, moisture, pressure, or electric field, have recently attracted intensive attention, aiming at the ever-increasing demand for safe batteries and smart electronics. The most typical stimulus-responsive materials are polymers that change their conformation by forming destroying secondary forces, in...

We report a systematic study of a modular approach to create multi-component supramolecular nanostructures that can be tailored to be both enzyme and temperature responsive. Using a straightforward synthetic approach we functionalised a thermal responsive polymer, poly(2-isopropyl-2-oxazoline), with fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl-amino acids that drive the self-assembly. Depending on the properties o...

Topological metamorphosis represents a powerful approach to modulate the properties of polymers. However, it still remains major challenge achieve tunability bulk mechanical via topological transformation in supramolecular polymer systems. Herein, we couple covalent and single system—referred as covalent-and-supramolecular (CSP)—to realize thermo-responsive macromolecular metamorphosis. The CSP...

Ever since the introduction of nitrocellulose (NC) as an explosive fill in the 1850s, polymers have contributed considerably to advancements in the technology of both propellants and explosives. In addition to the specific instance of the use of NC polymer in explosive fills, applications of polymers have been most extensive in binders andplasticizers.Over the years,with thematurity of composit...

giant unilamellar vesicles (guvs) consisting in self-closed lipid bilayers of 0.5-100 µm diameter are considered as oversimplified models of cells because of their biological membrane and micrometric size while large unilamellar vesicles (luvs) of 100-500 nm diameter have applications in drug delivery. to improve structural and mechanical properties of these vesicles, we have developed two cate...

In article number 2004452, Dermot F. Brougham and co-workers demonstrate 3D printable responsive magnetic hydrogels composed of iron oxide nanoflowers Pluronic polymers that encode spatiotemporally controlled temperature increase dye release on alternating field irradiation.