There is an increasing evidence that stimuli-responsive nanomaterials become significantly important components of modern materials developments. This Talk will outlines recent advances in synthesis and fabrication of stimuli-responsive polymeric colloids with built-in stimuli-responsive components and surface modifications of functional nanoparticles that facilitate responsiveness. The synthesis and construction of stimuli-responsive spherical, core-shell, concentric, hollow, Janus, gibbous/inverse gibbous, and cocklebur morphologies with the focus on shape, color, or size changes resulting from external stimuli will outlined. Selected surface reactions that lead to responsiveness achieved by decorating nanoparticles with stimuli-responsive polymers will be presented in the context of synthetic approaches facilitating controllable recognition, signaling, or sequential responses.

Stimuli-responsive nano-colloidals: Tutorial

255th National Meeting (2018)

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