The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-
CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical …

Responsive polymer materials can adapt to surrounding environments, regulate transport of
ions and molecules, change wettability and adhesion of different species on external stimuli …

Polymer Brushes via Surface-Initiated Controlled Radical Polymerization: Synthesis,
Characterization, Properties, and Applications | Chemical Reviews ACS ACS Publications C&EN …

Active motion is intrinsic to all kinds of living organisms from unicellular ones to humans and
inspires development of synthetic actively moving materials. Hydrogels, which are three …

Surface-grafting polymer brushes (SPB), which are used in a versatile technique to easily
realize surface modifications, can be commonly used to change the inherent surface …

Bottom‐up surface processing with well‐defined polymeric structures becomes increasingly
important in many current technologies. Polymer brushes, that is, assemblies of …

In nature, plant tendrils can produce two fundamental motion modes, bending and chiral
twisting (helical curling) distortions, under the stimuli of sunlight, humidity, wetting or other …

Stimulus-responsive polymer brushes (SRPBs) exhibit a change in conformation and
structure, often accompanied by a noticeable change in surface energy, due to an external …

Poly (acrylic acid)(PAA), as a highly ionic conductive hydrogel, can reversibly swell/deswell
according to the surrounding pH conditions. An optical maskless stereolithography …

We investigated the folding of rectangular stimuli-responsive hydrogel-based polymer
bilayers with different aspect ratios and relative thicknesses placed on a substrate. It was …