Shape memory polymers as smart materials: A review

T Dayyoub, AV Maksimkin, OV Filippova… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polymer smart materials are a broad class of polymeric materials that can change their
shapes, mechanical responses, light transmissions, controlled releases, and other functional …

Shape‐memory polymers for biomedical applications

J Delaey, P Dubruel… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most promising fields for shape‐memory polymers is the biomedical field. Shape‐
memory polymers that can be triggered by various (physiological) conditions such as …

Thermally-induced two-way shape memory polymers: Mechanisms, structures, and applications

M Zare, MP Prabhakaran, N Parvin… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
Two-way shape memory polymers (2W-SMPs) are a novel class of shape memory polymers
with the reversible and programmable shape-changing behavior which have gained …

Advanced functional polymer materials

K Wang, K Amin, Z An, Z Cai, H Chen… - Materials Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The research on advanced functional polymers is being driven by the fast-growing demand
for new functional materials that can be used in revolutionary technologies. Polymers can be …

“2D or not 2D”: Shape-programming polymer sheets

Y Liu, J Genzer, MD Dickey - Progress in Polymer Science, 2016 - Elsevier
This review summarizes progress toward programming two-dimensional (2D) polymer
sheets which respond to a variety of external stimuli to form three-dimensional (3D) shapes …

[HTML][HTML] Two-way and multiple-way shape memory polymers for soft robotics: an overview

G Scalet - Actuators, 2020 - mdpi.com
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are smart materials capable of changing their shapes in a
predefined manner under a proper applied stimulus and have gained considerable interest …

Multiple and two-way reversible shape memory polymers: Design strategies and applications

K Wang, YG Jia, C Zhao, XX Zhu - Progress in Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are capable of changing their shapes in a pre-defined
manner under a stimulus, and have gained considerable interest in the past decades …

New directions in the chemistry of shape memory polymers

GJ Berg, MK McBride, C Wang, CN Bowman - Polymer, 2014 - Elsevier
The rapidly expanding field of shape memory polymers (SMPs) is driven by a growing
number of potential applications, such as biomaterials, optics, and electronics. The basic …

A mini review: Shape memory polymers for biomedical applications

K Wang, S Strandman, XX Zhu - Frontiers of Chemical Science and …, 2017 - Springer
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are smart materials that can change their shape in a pre-
defined manner under a stimulus. The shape memory functionality has gained considerable …

Repeated intrinsic self-healing of wider cracks in polymer via dynamic reversible covalent bonding molecularly combined with a two-way shape memory effect

LF Fan, MZ Rong, MQ Zhang… - ACS applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
To enable repeated intrinsic self-healing of wider cracks in polymers, a proof-of-concept
approach is verified in the present work. It operates through two-way shape memory effect …