総説
自励振動高分子ゲルの創製とその展開
2017 年 42 巻 5 号 p. 191-196
詳細
2017 年 42 巻 5 号 p. 191-196
In living systems, there are many autonomous and oscillatory phenomena to sustain life such as heart beating. We developed “self–oscillating” polymer gels that undergo spontaneous cyclic swelling–deswelling changes without any on–off switching of external stimuli, as with heart muscle. The self–oscillating gels were designed by utilizing the Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction, an oscillating reaction, as a chemical model of the TCA cycle. We have systematically studied these self–oscillating polymer gels since they were first reported in 1996. In this review, our recent progress on the self–oscillating polymer gels is summarized.
