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Dual Thermal-/Electrical-Responsive Luminescent ‘Smart’ Window
Applied Sciences, 2020 As buildings are a large energy user, it is important to not only reduce their consumption, but also have them generate their own electricity. Here, we describe a smart window that could reduce electricity consumption, normally used for air conditioning ...
Gilles H. Timmermans +3 more
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Light‐Driven Continual Oscillatory Rocking of a Polymer Film
ChemistryOpen, 2020 Achieving oscillatory motion in polymers without requiring on/off switching of stimuli is a current challenge. Hereby, a free‐standing liquid crystal polymer (LCP) is demonstrated to undergo a sustained oscillatory motion when triggered by light, moving ...
Marina Pilz da Cunha +4 more
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Temperature‐Responsive Photonic Devices Based on Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Advanced Photonics Research, 2021 Cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) are a major class of photonic materials that display selective reflection properties arising from their helical ordering.
Weixin Zhang +5 more
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Precise antibacterial therapeutics based on stimuli-responsive nanomaterials
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2023 Bacterial infection refers to the process in which bacteria invade, grow, reproduce, and interact with the body, ultimately causing a series of pathological changes.
Ziqi Wu +5 more
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Recent research progress on the stimuli-responsive smart membrane: A review
Nanotechnology Reviews, 2023 The smart membrane is a new type of functional membrane. The performance of this membrane is changed according to the variations in external physical and chemical signals.
Pan Yi +4 more
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Recent Advances in Stimuli-Responsive Metallogels
Molecules, 2023 Recently, stimuli-responsive supramolecular gels have received significant attention because their properties can be modulated through external stimuli such as heat, light, electricity, magnetic fields, mechanical stress, pH, ions, chemicals and enzymes.
Zhixiong Liu +3 more
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Dual-Stimuli-Responsive Microparticles [PDF]
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2015 The need for smart materials in the area of biotechnology has fueled the development of numerous stimuli-responsive polymers. Many of these polymers are responsive to pH, light, temperature, or oxidative stress, and yet very few are responsive toward multiple stimuli.
Sokolovskaya, E. +4 more
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Stimuli-responsive hydrogel sponge for ultrafast responsive actuator
Supramolecular Materials, 2022 With the ability to deform in response to specific stimuli, polymeric hydrogel actuators are important bionic materials. However, because shape deformation is derived from the diffusion of water molecules, the response rate of hydrogel actuators is ...
Yukun Jian +9 more
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Stimuli‐Responsive Nanotechnology for RNA Delivery
Advanced Science, 2023 Ribonucleic acid (RNA) drugs have shown promising therapeutic effects for various diseases in clinical and preclinical studies, owing to their capability to regulate the expression of genes of interest or control protein synthesis.
Hui Zhou +5 more
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Stimuli‐Responsive Polymeric Nanoparticles [PDF]
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2017 There is increasing evidence that stimuli‐responsive nanomaterials have become significantly critical components of modern materials design and technological developments. Recent advances in synthesis and fabrication of stimuli‐responsive polymeric nanoparticles with built‐in stimuli‐responsive components (Part A) and surface modifications of ...
Xiaolin, Liu, Ying, Yang, Marek W, Urban
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