Mechanochromic Fluorescent Materials

Abstract

Smart materials are designed materials possessing one or more properties that can be significantly changed in a controlled fashion by external stimuli, such as stress, temperature, moisture, pH and electric or magnetic fields.Thus, smart materials are also called stimuli-responsive materials.Smart materials have been considered to be the fourth generation of materials after natural materials, synthetic polymer materials and artificial design materials, which is one of the important developing trends in high-tech new materials and will support the development of modern high technology, resulting in the disappearance of the boundaries of the traditional functional and structural materials to realize the functionalization of structural materials and the diversification of functional materials.It is believed that the development and large-scale application of smart materials will lead to a great revolution in the development of material sciences.Smart materials and systems have been widely investigated as physical atomic-level switches, memories to chemical sensing systems and bio-related controlled release systems.In particular, organic and biological soft materials, which are generally not restricted by crystal lattices or inflexible bonding, are anticipated to find various applications as functional materials because of their flexible responses to the applied stimuli.Some prototypical smart materials could be operated through rather ambiguous mechanisms, where precise RSC Smart Materials No.

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• Sun Yat-sen University CN

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