Thermo-responsive polymers and their application as smart biomaterials

YJ Kim, YT Matsunaga - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The drastic development of polymeric materials for a wide range of biomedical and
biomaterial applications has been explored in the last few decades. Among these materials …

Recent advances in shape–memory polymers: Structure, mechanism, functionality, modeling and applications

J Hu, Y Zhu, H Huang, J Lu - Progress in polymer science, 2012 - Elsevier
Research on shape–memory polymers (SMPs) has been actively conducted for more than
three decades. Recently, interest in this area has intensified. Even though there have been a …

[HTML][HTML] Fundamentals, materials and strategies for personal thermal management by next-generation textiles

AS Farooq, P Zhang - Composites Part A: Applied Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Heat stress affects personal health and curtails work productivity, resulting in adversely
influencing the entire economy. With global warming and expected climate change, the …

Smart textile‐based personal thermal comfort systems: current status and potential solutions

J Tabor, K Chatterjee, TK Ghosh - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Thermophysiological comfort in humans is sought universally but seldom achieved due to
biological and physiological variances. Most people in developed parts of the world rely on …

Biomimetic micro/nano structures for biomedical applications

T **ang, J Hou, H **e, X Liu, T Gong, S Zhou - Nano Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Cell behaviors are influenced by the surrounding dynamic microenvironment where the
extracellular matrix (ECM) composed of different micro/nano-structures plays a key role …

A review of actively moving polymers in textile applications

J Hu, S Chen - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Actively moving polymers being developed rapidly have drawn wide attention. A review is
presented to highlight the most important areas and directions in textile applications. The …

Electrospun shape memory polymer micro-/nanofibers and tailoring their roles for biomedical applications

M Zare, P Davoodi, S Ramakrishna - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) as a relatively new class of smart materials have gained
increasing attention in academic research and industrial developments (eg, biomedical …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the influence of microencapsulated phase change materials on the behavior of a new generation of thermo-regulating shape memory …

JM Laza, A Veloso-Fernandez, J Sanchez-Bodon… - Polymer Testing, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work is a first approach in order to achieve thermo-sensitive and waterproof
polyurethane fibers useful in the textile industry. For this, two polyurethane formulations with …

Temperature responsive shape memory polyurethanes

S Mondal - Polymer-Plastics Technology and Materials, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Among various SMPs, polyurethane-based temperature-responsive shape memory polymer
has received great interest to the material scientists due to their excellent shape memory …

Novel shape-memory polyurethane fibers for textile applications

M Sáenz-Pérez, T Bashir, JM Laza… - Textile Research …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In this work, thermoresponsive shape-memory polyurethane (SMPU) fibers were produced
by melt spinning from different SMPU pellets. Afterwards, the knitted fabric samples were …