Intelligent materials for monitoring the condition of the packaged food or its surroundings are highly desired to ensure food safety. In this paper, UV-curable silicone-modified materials for monitoring the freshness of high-protein food such as shri...
Copolymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM), itaconamic acid (IAM; 4-amino-2-methylene-4-oxobutanoic acid) and β-cyclodextrin was investigated in this study. β-cyclodextrin was at first modified by reacting with allyl glycidyl ether to substitu...
Multifunctional mulberry silk fabrics with excellent temperature- and pH-sensitivity, antibacterial properties and permeability are successfully prepared by surface modification with PNIPAAm/chitosan/poly(ethylene oxide) nanofibers. The nanofibers de...
Nowadays, intelligent packaging has become very popular. It can quickly detect problems that arise during food production or circulation by monitoring the quality and safety of food. Anthocyanins have attracted widespread attention as a material for...
As an intelligent polymer material, pH-sensitive hydrogels exhibit the capability to dynamically sense alterations in ambient pH levels and subsequently initiate corresponding physical or chemical responses, including swelling, contraction, degradati...
Many concerns are being expressed about the biodegradability, biocompatibility, and long-term viability of polymer-based substances. This prompted the quest for an alternative source of material that could be utilized for various purposes. Starch is...
Hydrogels are widely used in wound dressings due to their moisturizing properties and biocompatibility. However, traditional hydrogel dressings cannot monitor wounds and provide accurate treatment. Recent advancements focus on hydrogel dressings with...
Smart packaging materials (SPMs) combine the properties of intelligent and active packaging into a single system, enabling for the monitoring of the packaged product while enhancing its desired conditions. In this study, poly(lactic acid) (PLA) was u...
Stimuli-responsive, smart, intelligent, or environmentally sensitive polymers respond to changes in external stimuli such as pH, temperature, ionic strength, surfactants, pressure, light, biomolecules, and magnetic field. These materials are develope...
As an important functional material in food industry, intelligent packaging films can bring great convenience for consumers in the field of food preservation and freshness detection. Herein, we fabricated pH-sensing films employing hydroxypropyl guar...
Pesticides are the basis for defending against major biological disasters and important for ensuring national food security. Biocompatible, biodegradable, intelligent, and responsive materials are currently an emerging area of interest in the field o...
The primary objective of this study was to assess the potential utility of quince seed mucilage as an excipient within a graft copolymer for the development of an oral-controlled drug delivery system. The Cydonia oblonga-mucilage-based graft copolyme...
Background: The diagnosis of joint replacement infection is a difficult clinical challenge that often occurs when the implant cannot be salvaged. We hypothesize that the pH value of synovial fluid could be an important indicator of the inflammatory s...
With the advent of “intelligent” materials, the design of smart bioadhesives responding to chemical, physical, or biological stimuli has been widely developed in biomedical applications to minimize the risk of wounds reopening, chronic pa...
Due to their unique advantages—such as small size, easy integration, flexible wearability, low power consumption, high sensitivity, and material designability—organic field-effect transistor (OFET) gas sensors have significant application...
In the bioprocessing industry, real-time monitoring of bioreactors is essential to ensuring product quality and process efficiency. Conventional monitoring methods can satisfy some needs but suffer from calibration drift, limited spatial coverage, an...
The popularity of health concepts and the wave of digitalization have driven the innovation of sensors in the medical field. Such continual development has made sensors progress in the direction of safety, flexibility, and intelligence for continuous...
Biopolymers represent a great resource for the development and utilization of new functional materials due to their particular advantages such as biocompatibility, biodegradability and non-toxicity. “Intelligent gels” sensitive to differe...
To achieve dual functionality that can monitor both Al3+ levels in food and the freshness of fish, rice straw fibers (RSFs) were treated in NaOH solutions and then cationized with 2,3-epoxypropyltrimethylammonium chloride, onto which alizarin red S m...
With rising living standards, consumer demand for fresher food continues to increase. Consequently, the development of multifunctional packaging materials that enable real-time freshness monitoring, delay spoilage, and ensure environmental sustainabi...
This review presents current literature on different nanocomposite coatings and surface finishing for textiles, and in particular this study has focused on smart materials, drug-delivery systems, industrial, antifouling and nano/ultrafiltration membr...
Developing effective intelligent nanocarriers is highly desirable for fluorescence imaging and therapeutic applications but remains challenging. Using a vinyl-grafted BMMs (bimodal mesoporous SiO2 materials) as a core and PAN ((2-aminoethyl)-6-(dimet...
Changes in the chemical environment can trigger large motions in chemomechanical polymers. The unique feature of such intelligent materials, mostly in the form of hydrogels, is therefore, that they serve as sensors and actuators at the same time, and...
The miniaturization of ocean parameter monitors is critical for environmental monitoring and oceanographic research. In recent years, rapid developments in data processing, artificial intelligence, micro-nano manufacturing and advanced materials have...
Concrete is the most commonly used construction material nowadays. With emerging cutting-edge technologies such as nanomaterials (graphene, carbon nanotubes, etc.), advanced sensing (fiber optics, computer tomography, etc.), and artificial intelligen...
The increasing presence of persistent pollutants in industrial wastewater underscores the shortcomings of conventional treatment methods, prompting the adoption of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for sustainable water remediation. This review exa...
Semiconductor-based photocatalytic reactions are a practical class of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) to address energy scarcity and environmental pollution. By utilizing solar energy as a clean, abundant, and renewable source, this process offer...