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Nature Materials 7, 523 - 525 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2214

Stimuli-responsive polymers: Engineering interactions

Alshakim Nelson1

  1. Alshakim Nelson is at the IBM Almaden Research Center, California 95120, USA.
    e-mail: alshak@us.ibm.com


Materials that respond to their external environment require creative molecular design — much inspiration comes from the natural world.

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