Intelligent materials / edited by Mohsen Shahinpoor and Hans-Jörg Schneider.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chemically Driven Artificial Molecular Machines -- Photochemically Controlled Molecular Devices and Machines -- Transition-Metal Complex-Based Molecular Machines -- Chemomechanical Polymers -- Ionic Polymer Metal Nanocomposites as Intelligent Materials and Artificial Muscles -- Artificial Muscles, Sensing and Multifunctionality -- Electrochemically Controllable Polyacrylonitrile-Derived Artificial Muscle as an Intelligent Material -- Unimolecular Electronic Devices -- Piezoelectric Ceramics as Intelligent Multifunctional Materials -- Ferroelectric Relaxor Polymers as Intelligent Soft Actuators and Artificial Muscles -- Magnetic Polymeric Gels as Intelligent Artificial Muscles -- Intelligent Materials: Shape-Memory Polymers -- Shape-Memory Alloys as Multifunctional Materials -- Magnetorheological Materials and their Applications -- Metal Hydrides as Intelligent Materials and Artificial Muscles -- Dielectric Elastomer Actuators as Intelligent Materials for Actuation, Sensing and Generation -- Azobenzene Polymers as Photomechanical and Multifunctional Smart Materials Intelligent Chitosan-based Hydrogels as Multifunctional Materials -- Polymer-Protein Complexation and its Application as ATP-driven Gel Machine -- Intelligent Composite Materials Having Capabilities of Sensing, Health Monitoring, Actuation, Self-Repair and Multifunctionality -- Overview of Liquid-crystal Elastomers, Magnetic Shape-memory Materials, Fullerenes, Carbon Nanotubes, Nonionic Smart Polymers and Electrorheological Fluids as Other Intelligent and Multifunctional Materials -- Overview on Biogenic and Bioinspired Intelligent Materials - from DNA-based Devices to Biochips and Drug-delivery Systems

World class, leading experts in the fields of chemistry, physics and engineering have contributed to Intelligent Materials, highlighting the importance of smart material science in the 21st century. In this exceptional text the expertise of specialists across the globe is drawn upon to present a truly interdisciplinary, outline of the topic. Covering both a bottom-up chemical, and top-down engineering approach to the design of intelligent materials the Editors of the book are bridging a vital gap between various scientific authorities. The influence of current research in this field on future technology is undisputed and potential applications of intelligent materials span nanoscience, nano technology, medicine, engineering, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and many other industries.

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