Self smart

Sensors. One growth area for electronic ceramics is in sensor appHcations. Sensors (qv) are devices that transform nonelectrical inputs into electrical outputs, thus providing environmental feedback. Smart, or intelligent, sensors also allow for mechanisms such as self-diagnosis, recovery, and adjustment for process monitoring and control (see Process control). 

The combined features of structural adaptation in a specific hybrid nanospace and of a dynamic supramolecular selection process make the dynamic-site membranes, presented in the third part, of general interest for the development of a specific approach toward nanomembranes of increasing structural selectivity. From the conceptual point of view these membranes express a synergistic adaptative behavior the addition of the most suitable alkali ion drives a constitutional evolution of the membrane toward the selection and amplification of a specific transport crown-ether superstructure in the presence of the solute that promoted its generation in the first place. It embodies a constitutional selfreorganization (self-adaptation) of the membrane configuration producing an adaptative response in the presence of its solute. This is the first example of dynamic smart membranes where a solute induces the preparation of its own selective membrane. 

Keywords Aliphatic polyesters Amphiphilic polymers Polymer micelles Self-assembly Smart materials... 

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