Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 8, Issue 49, Pages 33351-33370Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b09110
Keywords
adaptive programmable; stressed bilayer; patterned film; shape memory; drug delivery
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Adaptive programmable materials have attracted increasing attention due to their high functionality, autonomous behavior, encapsulation, and site-specific confinement capabilities in various applications. Compared to conventional materials, adaptive programmable materials possess unique single-material architecture that can maintain, respond, and change their shapes and dimensions when they are subjected to surrounding environment changes, such as alternation in temperature, pH, and ionic strength. In this review, the most-recent advances in the design strategies of adaptive programmable materials are presented with respect to different types of architectural polymers, including stimuli responsive polymers and shape-memory polymers. The diverse functions of these sophisticated materials and their significance in therapeutic agent delivery systems are also summarized in this review. Finally, the challenges for facile fabrication of these materials and future prospective are also discussed.
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