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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fan, Xiaoshan
• Chung, Jing Yang
• Lim, Yong Xiang
• Li, Zibiao
• Loh, Xian Jun

Titel

Review of Adaptive Programmable Materials and Their Bioapplications

Ist Teil von

• ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2016-12, Vol.8 (49), p.33351-33370

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Adaptive programmable materials have attracted increasing attention due to their high functionality, autonomous behavior, encapsulation, and site-specific confinement capabilities in various applications. Compared to conventional materials, adaptive programmable materials possess unique single-material architecture that can maintain, respond, and change their shapes and dimensions when they are subjected to surrounding environment changes, such as alternation in temperature, pH, and ionic strength. In this review, the most-recent advances in the design strategies of adaptive programmable materials are presented with respect to different types of architectural polymers, including stimuli-responsive polymers and shape-memory polymers. The diverse functions of these sophisticated materials and their significance in therapeutic agent delivery systems are also summarized in this review. Finally, the challenges for facile fabrication of these materials and future prospective are also discussed.