As the most abundant natural polymer on the earth

cellulose has many advantages

such as renewability

biodegradability and biocompatibility. The research and application of cellulose-based materials is important to protect environment and save energy. Recently

cellulose-based functional materials has received extensive attentions. Meanwhile

the functionalization of cellulose has been greatly promoted by the development of new solvents of cellulose and active controlled polymerization. The stimuli-responsive polymer materials can produce rapid and sensitive reactions to external stimuli

thus they have a huge potential in bio-sensing

detecting

and drug loading. In this short review

we summarize the recent research progress of cellulose-based stimuli-responsive functional materials according to the types of responses

and present the challenges and prospects in this field.