Polymer journal - volume 56 issue 12, december 2024

STIMULI-RESPONSIVE SMART POLYMERS BASED ON FUNCTIONAL DYES Functional dyes offer fascinating properties in response to external stimuli and enable unique stimuli-responsive functions in

materials by chemical incorporation into polymers. In this review, we highlight our recent studies conducted in the last half decade on stimuli-responsive smart polymers and polymeric

materials offering, for example, switchable adhesion, mechanical actuation, and chemical sensing based on functional dyes that are chemically incorporated into the structures, with a

particular focus on the stimuli of light, force, electric fields, and chemicals including water. * Keiichi Imato * Yousuke Ooyama