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Type of material
Smart polymers, stimuli-responsive polymers or functional polymers are high-performance polymers that change according to the environment they are in. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Smart polymerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Disulfide-Mediated Reversible Polymerization toward Intrinsically Dynamic Smart MaterialsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Conductive electroactive polymersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Temperature- and light-responsive smart polymer materialsCited 1,055 times
- Go sideways: HydrogelA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Self-healing hydrogelsA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Temperature- and light-responsive smart polymer materials
Engineering Functional Polymer Capsules toward Smart Nanoreactors
Polymer composites with smart optical properties
Smart polymer fibers with shape memory effect
Responsive Smart Windows from Nanoparticle–Polymer Composites
Photoinduced Smart, Self-Healing Polymer Sealant for Photovoltaics
Smart polymer brushes and their emerging applications
Liquid sensing: smart polymer/CNT composites
🆕 Influential since 2022
Disulfide-Mediated Reversible Polymerization toward Intrinsically Dynamic Smart Materials
Shape Memory Polymer Composites: 4D Printing, Smart Structures, and Applications
Biomedical applications of stimuli-responsive “smart” interpenetrating polymer network hydrogels
A smart risk-responding polymer membrane for safer batteries
Smart Polymer Microspheres: Preparation, Microstructures, Stimuli-Responsive Properties, and Applications
📚 Books worth reading
Conductive electroactive polymersGordon G. Wallace · 2002
Responsive Materials and MethodsAshutosh Tiwari, Hisatoshi Kobayashi · 2013- 📕Shape Memory MaterialsArun D I, Chakravarthy P · 2018
Smart structures and materials 2003[name missing] · 2003
Smart Inorganic PolymersEvamarie Hey-Hawkins, Muriel Hissler · 2019
Self-Healing PolymersWolfgang H. Binder · 2013- 📕Cold Hibernated Elastic Memory StructureWitold M. Sokolowski · 2018
- 📕Smart MaterialsAnca Filimon · 2018
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