Materials learning from life: concepts for active, adaptive and autonomous molecular systems

R Merindol, A Walther - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioinspired out-of-equilibrium systems will set the scene for the next generation of molecular
materials with active, adaptive, autonomous, emergent and intelligent behavior. Indeed life …

Creation of softmaterials based on self-oscillating polymer gels

R Yoshida - Polymer Journal, 2022 - nature.com
In 1996, the author reported “self-oscillating” polymer gels that spontaneously repeat
swelling–deswelling changes in a closed solution without any on–off switching by external …

Evolution of self-oscillating polymer gels as autonomous polymer systems

R Yoshida, T Ueki - NPG Asia Materials, 2014 - nature.com
We have developed 'self-oscillating'gels that undergo spontaneous cyclic swelling–
deswelling changes without any on–off switching of external stimuli, as with heart muscle …

Design Principles for Aqueous Interactive Materials: Lessons from Small Molecules and Stimuli‐Responsive Systems

JA McCune, S Mommer, CC Parkins… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Interactive materials are at the forefront of current materials research with few examples in
the literature. Researchers are inspired by nature to develop materials that can modulate …

Harmonic resonance and entrainment of propagating chemical waves by external mechanical stimulation in BZ self-oscillating hydrogels

T Geher-Herczegh, Z Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Smart polymer materials that are nonliving yet exhibit complex “life-like” or biomimetic
behaviors have been the focus of intensive research over the past decades, in the quest to …

Adaptive all the way down: building responsive materials from hierarchies of chemomechanical feedback

A Grinthal, J Aizenberg - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
A living organism is a bundle of dynamic, integrated adaptive processes: not only does it
continuously respond to constant changes in temperature, sunlight, nutrients, and other …

[HTML][HTML] Light and chemical oscillations: Review and perspectives

PL Gentili, JC Micheau - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C …, 2020 - Elsevier
When UV–vis radiation interacts with matter, it can play as either a pump, or a developer, or
a signal. In this paper, we show that when UV–vis radiation interacts with very-far-from …

Delayed mechanical response to chemical kinetics in self-oscillating hydrogels driven by the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction

T Geher-Herczegh, Z Wang, T Masuda… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We show experimentally that chemical and mechanical self-oscillations in Belousov–
Zhabotinsky hydrogels are inherently asynchronous, that is, there is a detectable delay in …

Pattern recognition with “materials that compute”

Y Fang, VV Yashin, SP Levitan, AC Balazs - Science advances, 2016 - science.org
Driven by advances in materials and computer science, researchers are attempting to
design systems where the computer and material are one and the same entity. Using …

Pulsatory patterns in active fluids

KV Kumar, JS Bois, F Jülicher, SW Grill - Physical Review Letters, 2014 - APS
We show that pulsatory patterns arise in thin active films in which two chemical species
regulate active stress. The regulating species diffuse within the film and are advected by self …