3D printing materials for soft robotics

E Sachyani Keneth, A Kamyshny, M Totaro… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robotics is a growing field of research, focusing on constructing motor‐less robots from
highly compliant materials, some are similar to those found in living organisms. Soft robotics …

Mechanical behaviors and applications of shape memory polymer and its composites

W Zhao, N Li, L Liu, J Leng, Y Liu - Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Shape memory polymer (SMP) and SMP composites (SMPC) can memorize the permanent
shape and recover from the temporary shape to the permanent shape when stimulated by …

Research progress of shape memory polymer and 4D printing in biomedical application

W Zhao, C Yue, L Liu, Y Liu… - Advanced Healthcare …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As a kind of smart material, shape memory polymer (SMP) shows great application potential
in the biomedical field. Compared with traditional metal‐based medical devices, SMP …

4D printing: a review on recent progresses

H Chu, W Yang, L Sun, S Cai, R Yang, W Liang, H Yu… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Since the late 1980s, additive manufacturing (AM), commonly known as three-dimensional
(3D) printing, has been gradually popularized. However, the microstructures fabricated …

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 …

Shape-memory polymers for multiple applications in the materials world

F Pilate, A Toncheva, P Dubois, JM Raquez - European Polymer Journal, 2016 - Elsevier
Shape-memory polymers (SMPs) as stimuli-responsive shape-changing polymers are of
great interest for fundamental research and technological innovation. In this contribution, a …

A review of smart superwetting surfaces based on shape‐memory micro/nanostructures

X Bai, X Gou, J Zhang, J Liang, L Yang, S Wang, X Hou… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bioinspired smart superwetting surfaces with special wettability have aroused great attention
from fundamental research to technological applications including self‐cleaning, oil–water …

The research status and challenges of shape memory polymer-based flexible electronics

H Gao, J Li, F Zhang, Y Liu, J Leng - Materials Horizons, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Shape memory polymer-based flexible electronic devices (SMPFEDs) that incorporate novel
features and functions of shape memory polymers (SMPs) and their composites (SMPCs) …

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 …