Controlled drug delivery systems are an encouraging solution to some drug disadvantages such as reduced solubility, deprived biodistribution, tissue damage, fast breakdown of the drug, cytotoxicity, or side effects. Self-ordered nanoporous anodic alumina is an auspicious material for drug delivery due to its biocompatibility, stability, and controllable pore geometry. Its use in drug delivery a...

Bio-molecular non-covalent interactions provide a powerful platform for material-specific self-organization in aqueous media. Here, we introduce a strategy that integrates a synthetic optically-responsive motif with a materials-binding peptide to enable remote actuation. Specifically, we linked a photoswitchable azobenzene moiety to either terminus of a Au-binding peptide. We employed these hyb...

Gelatin remains one of the most important biopolymeric material platforms because of its availability, safety, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and stimuli-responsive properties. Here we report a simple, rapid, and reagentless anodic deposition method to assemble gelatin hydrogels from aqueous salt solutions onto an electrode surface. Results indicate that anodic reactions partially oxidize ...

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Auxetic structures have been produced using 3D printing and knitted textile materials. A review of other auxetic textiles is presented along with the new range configurations were developed, prototyped, tested to demonstrate significant response, including Poisson’s ratio up negative one. The concept 4D was employed create environmentally responsive hinges in some structures, allowing material ...

Responsive materials are used in many diverse applications including actuators, sensors, tunable viscosity liquids, and displays. In addition to materials with controlled properties, a number of ‘‘smart’’ building blocks are promising as components of responsive assemblies. Electroand magnetorheological fluids rely on such assemblies for their dynamic change in viscosity. The design of building...

The development of multistimuli-receptive actuators demands a rational combination suitable functionalities. Achieving such actuating properties in single crystalline material is challenge. In spite several investigations on photo-, thermo,- and mechano-responsive crystals, displaying all these effects rare. By judicious photoreactive 2-fluoro-4′-styrylpyridine units flexible Pb3(SCN)3 units, m...