Abstract
Intelligent materials are claimed to overcome current drawbacks associated with the attainment of high standards of life, health, security and defense. Membrane-based sensors represent a category of smart systems capable of providing a large number of benefits to different markets of textiles, biomedicine, environment, chemistry, agriculture, architecture, transport and energy. Intelligent membranes can be characterized by superior sensitivity, broader dynamic range and highly sophisticated mechanisms of autorecovery. These prerogatives are regarded as the result of multi-compartment arrays, where complementary functions can be accommodated and well-integrated. Based on the mechanism of “sense to act”, stimuli-responsive membranes adapt themselves to surrounding environments, producing desired effects such as smart regulation of transport, wetting, transcription, hydrodynamics, separation, and chemical or energy conversion. Hopefully, the design of new smart devices easier to manufacture and assemble can be realized through the integration of sensing membranes with wireless networks, looking at the ambitious challenge to establish long-distance communications. Thus, the transfer of signals to collecting systems could allow continuous and real-time monitoring of data, events and/or processes.
Highlights
Intelligent materials are claimed to overcome current drawbacks associated with the attainment of high standards of life, health, security and defense
Intelligent membranes are considered part of the category of the ultra-smart systems, which are regarded as living structures able to sense, adapt themselves and act in response to physical or chemical changes occurring in the surrounding environment
It is not difficult to imagine how transport, wetting, transcription, hydrodynamics, and chemical or energy conversion can be triggered through artificial membranes having a flat, tubular or spherical configuration [15,16,17,18,19]
Summary
Intelligent materials are claimed to overcome current drawbacks associated with the attainment of high standards of life, health, security and defense. Intelligent membranes are considered part of the category of the ultra-smart systems, which are regarded as living structures able to sense, adapt themselves and act in response to physical or chemical changes occurring in the surrounding environment.
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