Light and shape‐memory polymers: characterization, preparation, stimulation, and application

L Fang, W Yan, S Chen, Q Duan… - Macromolecular …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Shape‐memory polymers (SMPs) are smart materials that change shape when exposed to
stimuli and have various applications in different fields due to their unique properties. Light …

[HTML][HTML] A brief review of the shape memory phenomena in polymers and their typical sensor applications

L Sun, TX Wang, HM Chen, AV Salvekar, BS Naveen… - Polymers, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
In this brief review, an introduction of the underlying mechanisms for the shape memory
effect (SME) and various shape memory phenomena in polymers is presented first. After …

The effect of 3D printing parameters on the shape memory properties of 4D printed polylactic acid circular disks: An experimental investigation and parameters …

SMD Tezerjani, MS Yazdi, MH Hosseinzadeh - Materials Today …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Additive manufacturing (AM) using Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is one of the
advanced fabrication processes which allows for fabricating sophisticated parts with high …

Ring-opening copolymerization of four-dimensional printable polyesters using supramolecular thiourea/organocatalysis

D Merckle, O King, AC Weems - ACS Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP) of polyesters may be used to achieve a wide
variety of functional polymers using commercial monomer libraries, but primarily make use …

Selective reactivity of myrcene for vat photopolymerization 3D printing and postfabrication surface modification

AC Weems, KR Delle Chiaie, R Yee… - …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Biosourced materials are gaining interest industrially, but there are still limitations on the
library of available materials suitable for advanced manufacturing, especially using …

4D Aliphatic photopolymer polycarbonates as direct ink writing of biodegradable, conductive graphite‐composite materials

S Brooks, Z Cartwright, D Merckle… - Polymer …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Photopolymers are one of the fastest growing 3D printing material classes, despite the lack
of diversity in performance or composition. A simple addition of graphite nanopowder is …

Low dielectric constant and high toughness epoxy resin based on hyperbranched polyester grafted by flexible chain modified

Z Wang, X Zhang, L Weng, L Liu - Journal of Materials Science: Materials …, 2019‏ - Springer
A new kind of hyperbranched polymers was designed and prepared with flexible chain
blocking in this paper. Not only the flexible chain blocking hyperbranched polyester could be …

Ring opening copolymerization of four-dimensional printed shape memory polyester photopolymers using digital light processing

D Merckle, E Constant, Z Cartwright… - Macromolecules, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
The advent of smart or functional 3D printing (3DP) materials (“four-dimensional (4D)
materials”) represents one important development toward addressing current limitations in …

Nonlinear Brillouin spectroscopy: what makes it a better tool for biological viscoelastic measurements

CW Ballmann, Z Meng, VV Yakovlev - Biomedical optics express, 2019‏ - opg.optica.org
Brillouin spectroscopy is an emerging tool in biomedical imaging and sensing. It is capable
of assessing the high-frequency viscoelastic longitudinal modulus with microscopic spatial …

[HTML][HTML] Thermoresponsive shape memory fibers for compression garments

R Tonndorf, D Aibibu, C Cherif - Polymers, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Their highly deformable properties make shape memory polymers (SMP) a promising
component for the development of new compression garments. The shape memory effect …