Preface vii Contributors ix 1 Nature-Inspired Stimuli-Responsive Self-Folding Materials 1 Leonid Ionov 2 Stimuli-Responsive Nanostructures from Self-Assembly of Rigid Flexible Block Molecules 17 Yongju Kim, Taehoon Kim, and Myongsoo Lee 3 Stimuli-Directed Alignment Control of Semiconducting Discotic Liquid Crystalline Nanostructures 55 Hari Krishna Bisoyi and Quan Li 4 Anion-Driven Supramolecular Self-Assembled Materials 115 Hiromitsu Maeda 5 Photoresponsive Cholesteric Liquid Crystals 141 Yannian Li and Quan Li 6 Electric- and Light-Responsive Bent-Core Liquid Crystals: From Molecular Architecture and Supramolecular Nanostructures to Applications 189 Yongqiang Zhang 7 Photomechanical Liquid Crystalline Polymers:Motion in Response to Light 233 Haifeng Yu and Quan Li 8 Responsive Nanoporous Silica Colloidal Films and Membranes 265 Amir Khabibullin and Ilya Zharov 9 Stimuli-Responsive Smart Organic Hybrid Metal Nanoparticles 293 Chenming Xue and Quan Li 10 Biologically Stimuli-Responsive Hydrogels 335 Akifumi Kawamura and Takashi Miyata 11 Biomimetic Self-Oscillating Polymer Gels 363 Ryo Yoshida 12 Stimuli-Responsive Surfaces in Biomedical Applications 377 Alice Pranzetti, Jon A. Preece, and Paula M. Mendes 13 Stimuli-Responsive Conjugated Polymers: From Electronic Noses to Artificial Muscles 423 Astha Malhotra, Matthew McInnis, Jordan Anderson, and Lei Zhai Index 471