Electronically Smart Polymers and their Electronic Applications: Review

Abstract

The recent review described electronic polymers, the engineering design of smart polymers and their electronic applications is very important for the manufacture of smart engineering polymers for the purpose of using them in electronic devices, where smart polymers or stimuli-responsive polymers are high-performance polymers that change according to the environment in which they are located. These materials can be sensitive to a number of factors, such as temperature, humidity, pH, wavelength, light intensity, electricity, or magnetic field, and can respond in different ways, such as changing color or transparency, becoming conductive or permeable to water, or changing Shape (shape memory polymers). Minor changes in the environment are usually sufficient to induce significant changes in polymer properties. Smart-engineered polymers appear in both highly specialized applications and everyday products. They are used to produce hydrogels, biodegradable packaging, and to a large extent in biomedical engineering. One example is a polymer that undergoes conformational change in response to a change in pH, which can be used in drug delivery. The nonlinear response of smart polymers is what makes them unique and efficient. A large change in structure and properties can be brought about by a very small stimulus. Once this change occurs, there is no further change, which means a predictable all-or-nothing response, with perfect uniformity throughout the polymer.