The development of materials experienced structural materials → functional materials → intelligent materials → the process of fuzzy materials. Intelligent means that the role and function of the material can be consciously adjusted, modified and repaired as the external conditions change. As early as the 1970s, Tanaka Feng found a smart polymer phenomenon, that is, when the cooling polyacrylamide gel, the gel gradually become turbid from the transparent, the final was opaque, when heated, it turned transparent. In the 1980s, there were smart polymer materials used to make polymer sensors, separation membranes, and artificial organs. In the 1990s, intelligent polymer materials entered a high-speed development stage. After entering the 21st century, intelligent polymer materials are to the direction of intelligent polymer blurred material development. As the polymer material and has the function of sensing, processing and implementation of the body has a very similar chemical structure, more suitable for the manufacture of intelligent materials and the composition of the system, to the biological function of the approximation, so its research and development of particular concern.

Intelligent polymer materials can be perceived changes in the external environment and stimulate the expansion and contraction of the corresponding self-regulation. It is widely used in sensors, actuators, displays, optical communications, drug carriers, size selective separators, biocatalysis, biotechnology, intelligent catalysts, smart fabrics, smart dimming materials, smart adhesives and artificial muscles field.

Intelligent polymer materials research and development has made some progress, some have been commercialized. But on the whole, it is still facing some problems in the road to the practical, such as stability, processing technology still needs to be improved; polymer synthesis method of improvement, structural modification and molecular design to become high-performance intelligent polymer Material first to solve the problem. At the molecular level, the study of the behavior of light, electricity and magnetism, revealing the relationship between molecular structure and photoelectromagnetic properties will lead to the emergence of new generation of intelligent polymer materials, so that the optoelectronics industry, information science and technology, major changes and breakthroughs The At present, people in the intelligent polymer materials of various modification methods, molecular wires, molecular circuits and molecular devices will lead to the idea of electronic technology revolution.