Polymeric materials that convert local fleeting signals into global macroscopic responses

Polymers that support self-propagating reactions are used to create materials that change global wetting properties in response to specific fleeting, local stimuli.

[1]  R. Yoshida,et al.  Evolution of self-oscillating polymer gels as autonomous polymer systems , 2014 .

[2]  Xuanhe Zhao,et al.  Mechanochemical Activation of Covalent Bonds in Polymers with Full and Repeatable Macroscopic Shape Recovery. , 2014, ACS macro letters.

[3]  M. C. Stuart,et al.  Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials. , 2010, Nature materials.

[4]  W. Krause,et al.  Mechanochemical strengthening of a synthetic polymer in response to typically destructive shear forces. , 2013, Nature chemistry.

[5]  Scott T Phillips,et al.  A self-powered polymeric material that responds autonomously and continuously to fleeting stimuli. , 2013, Angewandte Chemie.

[6]  M. Urban,et al.  Recent advances and challenges in designing stimuli-responsive polymers , 2010 .

[7]  L. Mahadevan,et al.  How the Venus flytrap snaps , 2005, Nature.

[8]  Yamamura,et al.  Chemistry and Biology of Plant Leaf Movements. , 2000, Angewandte Chemie.

[9]  Fengling Song,et al.  A highly sensitive fluorescent sensor for palladium based on the allylic oxidative insertion mechanism. , 2007, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[10]  Joanna Aizenberg,et al.  Adaptive all the way down: building responsive materials from hierarchies of chemomechanical feedback. , 2013, Chemical Society reviews.

[11]  Thomas H. Epps,et al.  Stimuli responsive materials. , 2013, Chemical Society reviews.

[12]  S. T. Phillips,et al.  Design of small molecule reagents that enable signal amplification via an autocatalytic, base-mediated cascade elimination reaction. , 2012, Chemical communications.

[13]  M. Breese,et al.  Proton beam writing , 2007 .

[14]  B. Sumerlin,et al.  Future perspectives and recent advances in stimuli-responsive materials , 2010 .

[15]  R. Hayward,et al.  Dynamic display of biomolecular patterns through an elastic creasing instability of stimuli-responsive hydrogels. , 2010, Nature materials.

[16]  Debra J. Audus,et al.  A facile synthesis of dynamic, shape-changing polymer particles. , 2014, Angewandte Chemie.

[17]  Scott T Phillips,et al.  A thermally-stable enzyme detection assay that amplifies signal autonomously in water without assistance from biological reagents. , 2013, Chemical communications.

[18]  W. C. Still,et al.  Rapid chromatographic technique for preparative separations with moderate resolution , 1978 .

[19]  D. Shabat,et al.  Quinone-methide species, a gateway to functional molecular systems: from self-immolative dendrimers to long-wavelength fluorescent dyes. , 2014, Accounts of chemical research.

[20]  Lei Zhai,et al.  Stimuli-responsive polymer films. , 2013, Chemical Society reviews.

[21]  P. Baran,et al.  Sulfhydryl-based dendritic chain reaction. , 2010, Chemical communications.

[22]  R. Grubbs,et al.  Safe and Convenient Procedure for Solvent Purification , 1996 .

[23]  Masamitsu Shirai,et al.  Photoacid and photobase generators: chemistry and applications to polymeric materials , 1996 .

[24]  D. Tyler,et al.  Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Nanocomposites Inspired by the Sea Cucumber Dermis , 2008, Science.

[25]  S. T. Phillips,et al.  A two-component small molecule system for activity-based detection and signal amplification: application to the visual detection of threshold levels of Pd(II). , 2011, Journal of the American Chemical Society.

[26]  F. Barth,et al.  Biomaterial systems for mechanosensing and actuation , 2009, Nature.

[27]  J. Sessler,et al.  Modern reaction-based indicator systems. , 2009, Chemical Society reviews.

[28]  I. Prigogine,et al.  Fluctuations in nonequilibrium systems. , 1971, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[29]  Janet Braam,et al.  In touch: plant responses to mechanical stimuli. , 2004, The New phytologist.