This book covers fundamentals and recent developments of stimuli-responsive polymers and includes detailed discussion on their synthesis, properties, techniques, and applications with examples and includes state-of-the-art smart polymer approaches. - Includes details on industrial and commercial applications of stimuli-responsive polymers - Features up-to-date information on topics like smart polymer brushes, smart hybrid nanoparticles, smart polymers on surfaces, solution theory, and stimuli-responsive networks - Brings together key findings and international perspectives of a timely and rapidly growing area of research - Presents state-of-the-art approaches, using examples of polymers with specific properties, including response to temperature, salt, and light