Self-assembly Smart Materials
A special issue of Journal of Functional Biomaterials (ISSN 2079-4983).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2018) | Viewed by 25112
Special Issue Editor
Interests: janus nanoparticles; amphiphiles; surfaces and interfaces; surfactants and polymers; colloids; self-assembly; supra-amphiphiles; conductive polymers; conductive polymeric nanoparticles
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is the great challenge of this century for material sciences to advance beyond current boundaries into the realm of smart and intelligent materials. Smart materials, such as stimuli responsive, or self-healing, bear simple written programs within their structure that allows them to perform simple functions and posses some environmental physico-chemical “awareness”. It can be said that the job of the chemist, biologist or material scientist resembles that of a software engineer who incorporates intelligence into a computer program. Recent advances puts material sciences into another direction, namely that of intelligent materials that could perform multiple functions and even share some common traits to living organisms, such as self-replication, competition for resources, survivability, etc. We now understand that living organisms are in their essence self-assembly structures at non-equilibrium, or dynamic equilibrium, which exist as long as they can harness a source of energy. We anticipate great progress in this direction in future and Nature is throughout our main source for inspiration in creating intelligent materials. The focus of this Special Issue is to cover the recent progress in the broad interdisciplinary areas of smart materials via self-assembly either at equilibrium or non-equilibrium, such as micelles, vesicles, stimuli-responsive delivery systems, nanoparticles and their assemblies, self-replicators, life de nuovo and the newest advances in dynamic combinatorial chemistry.
Prof. Dr. Andrei Honciuc
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Smart materials
- Intelligent materials
- Stimuli responsive
- Nanoparticles, micelles, vesicles
- Dynamic combinatorial chemistry
- Self-assembly at equilibrium
- Dynamic self-assembly
- Self-replicators
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