Smart materials, also known as intelligent materials, which are responsive to the external
stimuli including heat, moisture, stress, pH, and magnetic fields, have found extensive …

The drastic development of polymeric materials for a wide range of biomedical and
biomaterial applications has been explored in the last few decades. Among these materials …

Smart or stimuli-responsive materials are an emerging class of materials used for tissue
engineering and drug delivery. A variety of stimuli (including temperature, pH, redox-state …

Temperature variations may induce changes in solution properties for thermoresponsive
polymers, which have drawn much research attention due to their potential applications in …

Thermoresponsive gelling materials constructed from natural and synthetic polymers can be
used to provide triggered action and therefore customised products such as drug delivery …

Thermal runway constitutes the most pressing safety issue in lithium‐ion batteries and
supercapacitors of large‐scale and high‐power density due to risks of fire or explosion …

A series of new sulfobetaine methacrylates, including nitrogen-containing saturated
heterocycles, was synthesised by systematically varying the substituents of the zwitterionic …

It has been a significant challenge to prepare multiple-response hydrogels with both lower
critical solution temperature (LCST) and upper critical solution temperature (UCST). This …

Electrospun nanofibrous membranes have garnered significant attention in antimicrobial
applications, owing to their intricate three-dimensional network that confers an …

The phase separation behavior of biomacromolecules plays a key role in the fields of
biology and medicine. In this work, we gain a deep insight into how the primary and …