Self-oscillating polymer gel has become a distinguished class of smart soft materials. Here we fabricated and demonstrated a self-oscillating structural gel network with the incorporation of the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction. The structural polymer gel oscillates at a macroscopic level with remarkably faster kinetics compared to a normal gel of similar chemical compositions. The structural...

(2015) The nucleoid as a smart polymer. Science has a close but very complex relationship with technology (Latour, 1987). A simple phenomenon is that technology enables science by offering tools that provide new data or new kinds of data. In other cases, aspects or views of the empirical world may remain invisible until technology builds something that unveils them to the eyes of the scientific...

PAPER Joanna Aizenberg et al. Microbristle in gels: toward all-polymer reconfigurable hybrid surfaces EMERGING AREA Dmitry G. Shchukin et al. Application of smart organic nanocontainers in feedback active coatings www.softmatter.org We report on the fabrication of biologically-inspired ''smart'' surfaces using hybrid architectures comprising polymer microbristle embedded in a hydrogel layer. Th...

This review provides an overview of smart chemistry developed and utilized in the last 5-10 years in polymer-based drug delivery nanomedicine. Smart chemistry not only facilitates the controlled drug loading in a highly specific manner, but also potentially controls the drug release kinetics at the targeted tissues. This review highlights the emergence of new chemistry or unique utilization of ...

Nowadays, consumers can estimate the condition of packaged foods only by checking expiration date on label. However, this approach is inefficient when it comes to assessing actual edibility fresh products, since events that accelerate onset degradation phenomena, such as a rise in temperature, cannot be continuously assessed. In context, detection different parameter, low concentration amines, ...

Potassium ion (K) is the most abundant intracellular metal ion in the body and plays an important role in biological activities. Fabrication of K recognition and response smart materials is of both scientific and technological interests for various applications. Recently, our group have developed a series kinds of K-recognizable responsive smart materials based on 15-crown-5 as K recognizing re...