Book title: Biomedical Applications of Hydrogels Handbook
Editors: Park K, Okano T
Publisher: Springer
City: New York
ISBN: 978-1-4419-5919-5
Abstract: Many kinds of stimuli-responsive polymer gels that respond to the change in their surroundings such as solvent composition, temperature, pH, and supply of electric field have been developed. They are of interest as intelligent (or smart, biomimetic) materials which have sensor, processor, and actuator functions. This article is related to stimuli-responsive gels and their application for bio- or biomimetic materials designed as self-oscillating gels