Intelligent Stimuli-Responsive Materials: From Well-Defined Nanostructures To Applications

Chemists and materials scientists set out the basic design principles of materials that respond to stimuli, their performance, and the major challenges still needing to be overcome in order to achieve materials with appropriate characteristics for commercial application. Their topics include the stimuli-directed alignment control of semiconducting discotic liquid crystalline nanostructures, anion -driven supramolecular self-assembled materials, responsive nanoporous silica colloidal films and membranes, biomimetic self-oscillating polymer gels, and stimuli-responsive surfaces in biomedical applications. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

QUAN LI, PhD, is Director of the Organic Synthesis and Advanced Materials Laboratory of the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University, where he is also Adjunct Professor in the Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program. He has directed research projects supported by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), U.S. Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (DoD MURI), U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and U.S. National Science Foundation, among other funding institutions.