A redhead: Surface-grafted hydrophilic polymer brushes (see picture) with high molecular weight and graft density caused reversible bending and stretching of soft polymeric substrates on a macroscale. The shape change of the substrate was tuned to respond to different stimuli including humidity, temperature, and pH.
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Zou et al. (2011) studied this question.
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