The development of finely-tuned materials that adjust in a predictable manner by specific environment change is the recent arena of materials research. It is a newly emerging supra-disciplinary field with huge commercial potential. Stimuli-responsive materials answer by a considerable change in their properties to small changes in their environment. Responsive materials are becoming increasingly more prevalent as scientists learn about the chemistry and triggers that induce conformational changes in materials structures and devise ways to take advantage of and control them. Responsive Materials and Method offers state-of-the-art of the stimuli-responsive materials and their potential applications.

This collection brings together novel methodologies and strategies adopted in the research and development of responsive materials and technology.

Ashutosh Tiwari is an Assistant Professor of Nanobioelectronics at the Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, IFM, Linköping University, Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Materials Letters, a materials chemist, and graduate of the University of Allahabad, India. He has published more than 125 articles and patents in the field of materials science and technology. Dr. Tiwari was honored with the Innovation in Materials Science Award and Medal in 2011, during the International Conference on Chemistry for Mankind: Innovative Ideas in Life Sciences.

Hisatoshi Kobayashi is the group leader of Biofunctional Materials at the Biomaterials Centre, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. He has published more than 150 publications, books, and patents in the field of biomaterials science and technology as well as edited/authored three books on the advanced state-of-the-art of biomaterials.