This presentation will illustrate the design of macroscale polymeric materials that autonomously change their properties in response to specific signals. The specific signals initiate changes at the molecular level, but also turn on amplification reactions that, ultimately, give rise to nanoscale followed by macroscale changes in the material. Strategies for realizing such changes across scales include polymers (i) that support self-propagating reactions, or (ii) are designed to depolymerize when triggered. When a new, macroscale function is the goal of the response, then a systems approach is used to integrate more than one polymer into a polymeric material to give rise to (i) selective detection, (ii) amplification, and (iii) specific readouts. This presentation will highlight several examples of these strategies.

Stimuli-responsive polymeric materials that transform molecular detection events into autonomous reconfiguration of materials at the nano- and eventually macro-scale

251st National Meeting (2016)

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