Intelligent materials

Foreword: Preface; Introduction; 1-Chemically Driven Artificial Molecular Machines; 2-Photochemically Controlled Molecular Devices and Machines; 3-Tansition Metal Complex-Based Molecular Machines; 4-Chemomechanical Polymers; 5-Ionic Polymer Metal Nano-Composites as Intelligent Materials and Artificial Muscles; 6-Artificial Muscles, Sensing and Multifunctionality from the Electrochemical Properties of Conductive Polymers; 7-Electrochemically-Controllable Polyacrylonitrile Artificial Muscle as an Intelligent Material; 8-Unimolecular Electronic Devices;9-Piezoelectric Ceramics as Intelligent Multi-Functional Materials; 10-Ferroelectric Relaxor Polymers As Intelligent Soft Actuators and Artificial Muscles; 11-Magnetic Polymeric Gels As Intelligent Artificial Muscles; 12-Intelligent Materials: Shape-Memory Polymers; 13-Shape Memory Alloys as Multi-Functional Materials; 14-Magnetorheological Materials And Their Applications: A Review; 15-Metal Hydrides as Intelligent Materials and Artificial Muscles; 16-Dielectric Elastomer Actuators as Intelligent Materials for Actuation, Sensing and Generation; 17-Azobenzene Polymers as Photo-Mechanical and Multifunctional Smart Materials; 18-Intelligent Chitosan-based Hydrogels as Multifunctional Materials; 19-Polymer-Protein Complexation and its Application as ATP-Driven Gel Machine; 20-Intelligent Composite Materials Having Capabilities of Sensing, Health Monitoring, Actuation, Self-Repair and Multifunctionality"; 21-Overview of Liquid Crystal Elastomers, Magnetic Shape Memory Materials, Fullerenes, Carbon Nanotubes, Non-Ionic Smart Polymers and Electrorheological Fluids as Intelligent and Multi-Functional Materials; 22-Biogenic and Bioinspired Intelligent Materials -from DNA-based Devices to Biochips and Drug Delivery Systems; Chemically Driven Artificial Molecular Machines; Photochemically Controlled Molecular Devices and Machines; Chemomechanical Polymers; Ionic Polymer Metal; Nano-Composites as Intelligent Materials and Artificial Muscles; Piezoelectric Ceramics as Intelligent Multi-Functional Materials; Ferroelectric Relaxor Polymers As Intelligent Soft Actuators and Artificial Muscles; Intelligent Materials: Shape-Memory Polymers Magnetorheological Materials And Their Applications: A Review: 15-Metal Hydrides as Intelligent Materials and Artificial Muscles; Polymer-Protein Complexation and its Application as ATP-Driven Gel Machine; Biogenic and Bioinspired Intelligent Materials