Marine biofouling is a well-known massive problem: within the shortest time, ship hulls and
other man-made submerged surfaces are inevitably populated by various marine …

Owing to its close resemblance to biological systems and materials, soft matter has been
successfully implemented in numerous bioelectronic and biosensing applications, as well as …

Catalysis is at the core of almost every established and emerging chemical process and also
plays a central role in the quest for novel technologies for the sustainable production and …

Thermoresponsive polymers that undergo reversible phase transition by responding to an
environmental temperature change, in particular polymers showing lower critical solution …

Stimuli-responsive polymer materials are powerful tools in drug delivery and tissue
engineering. Because of the large variations in physiological conditions between normal …

Atmospheric moisture contains huge amounts of water and energy potential, which,
benefiting from the advances of nanomaterials, hold great promise in delivering circular …

Supramolecular materials cross‐linked between polymer chains by noncovalent bonds have
the potential to provide dynamic functions that are not produced by covalently cross‐linked …

Designing therapeutics is a process with many challenges. Even if the first hurdle—
designing a drug that modulates the action of a particular biological target in vitro—is …

Biomass-derived materials are green alternatives to synthetic plastics and other fossil-based
materials. Lignin, an aromatic plant polymer, is one of the most appealing renewable …

CO2 is an ideal trigger for switchable or stimuli-responsive materials because it is benign,
inexpensive, green, abundant, and does not accumulate in the system. Many different CO2 …