Smart polymers and nanocomposites for 3D and 4D printing

M Falahati, P Ahmadvand, S Safaee, YC Chang, Z Lyu… - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Smart materials, also known as intelligent materials, which are responsive to the external
stimuli including heat, moisture, stress, pH, and magnetic fields, have found extensive …

Recent progress in shape memory polymer: New behavior, enabling materials, and mechanistic understanding

Q Zhao, HJ Qi, T **e - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Shape memory polymers (SMPs), as a class of programmable stimuli-responsive shape
changing polymers, are attracting increasing attention from the standpoint of both …

Shape memory polymers: Past, present and future developments

MD Hager, S Bode, C Weber, US Schubert - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) represent a highly interesting class of materials. As one
representative of the intelligent polymeric systems, these materials gained significant …

Sequential self-folding structures by 3D printed digital shape memory polymers

Y Mao, K Yu, MS Isakov, J Wu, ML Dunn, H Jerry Qi - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Folding is ubiquitous in nature with examples ranging from the formation of cellular
components to winged insects. It finds technological applications including packaging of …

Shape memory polymers and their composites in biomedical applications

W Zhao, L Liu, F Zhang, J Leng, Y Liu - Materials Science and Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
As a kind of intelligent material, shape memory polymer (SMP) can respond to outside
stimuli and possesses good properties including shape memory effect, deformability and …

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 …

Multi-shape active composites by 3D printing of digital shape memory polymers

J Wu, C Yuan, Z Ding, M Isakov, Y Mao, T Wang… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Recent research using 3D printing to create active structures has added an exciting new
dimension to 3D printing technology. After being printed, these active, often composite …

[HTML][HTML] A review of stimuli-responsive shape memory polymer composites

H Meng, G Li - polymer, 2013 - Elsevier
The past decade has witnessed remarkable advances in stimuli-responsive shape memory
polymers (SMPs) with potential applications in biomedical devices, aerospace, textiles, civil …

[HTML][HTML] Two-way 4D printing: a review on the reversibility of 3D-printed shape memory materials

AY Lee, J An, CK Chua - Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
The rapid development of additive manufacturing and advances in shape memory materials
have fueled the progress of four-dimensional (4D) printing. With the right external stimulus …