Abstract Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAAm) is the most well-known and widely used
stimuli-responsive polymer in the biomedical field owing to its ability to undergo temperature …

In 1996, the author reported “self-oscillating” polymer gels that spontaneously repeat
swelling–deswelling changes in a closed solution without any on–off switching by external …

Out of equilibrium operation of chemical reaction networks (CRNs) enables artificial
materials to autonomously respond to their environment by activation and deactivation of …

As novel functional materials, we developed self-oscillating polymeric materials composed
of synthetic polymers coupled with an oscillating chemical reaction, the so-called Belousov …

Here, we present sandwich-type self-oscillating gels as a potential model for exploring the
cardiac hierarchy and derived emergent properties. The sandwich-type self-oscillating gels …

Smart polymer materials that are nonliving yet exhibit complex “life-like” or biomimetic
behaviors have been the focus of intensive research over the past decades, in the quest to …

Many thermoresponsive surfaces for biomedical applications have been developed using
various techniques for modifying substrates with thermoresponsive polymers. In addition …

We show experimentally that chemical and mechanical self-oscillations in Belousov–
Zhabotinsky hydrogels are inherently asynchronous, that is, there is a detectable delay in …

A primary interest in cell membrane and shape fluctuations is establishing experimental
models reflecting only nonthermal active contributions. Here we report a millimeter-scaled …

In this study, we established a fabrication method and analyzed the volumetric self-
oscillatory behaviors of submillimeter-sized spherical self-oscillating gels. We validated that …