Stimuli responsiveness in polymer design is burgeoning and is providing basis for diversely new and advanced materials. These advanced materials include switchable porosity in membranes and coatings, switchable particle formation and thermodynamically stable nanoparticle dispersions, mechanicochemically-coupling polymers that provide directed mechanical stress in response to intensive fields, colloidal crystallization, and switchable stabilization and compatibility of nanomaterials in changing environments, among others. The growth of ionic liquid applications and the concomitant incorporation of ionic liquids into polymeric materials have resulted in a plethora of new polymers based on the imidazolium group. We discuss particular cases exemplifying the above behaviors that highlight important phase change processes that are thermodynamically controlled.

Tuning macroscopic properties using stimuli-responsive ionic lquid monomers

249th National Meeting (2015)

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