Functional textiles with smart properties: their fabrications and sustainable applications

Y Zhang, X **a, K Ma, G **a, M Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Benefiting from inherent lightweight, flexibility, and good adaptability to human body,
functional textiles are attracting tremendous attention to cope with wearable issues in …

Towards lignin-based functional materials in a sustainable world

D Kai, MJ Tan, PL Chee, YK Chua, YL Yap, XJ Loh - Green Chemistry, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In light of the incessant consumption of raw materials in the world today, the search for
sustainable resources is ever pressing. Lignin, the second most naturally abundant …

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 …

Smart electronic textiles

W Weng, P Chen, S He, X Sun… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This Review describes the state‐of‐the‐art of wearable electronics (smart textiles). The
unique and promising advantages of smart electronic textiles are highlighted by comparing …

Long liquid crystal elastomer fibers with large reversible actuation strains for smart textiles and artificial muscles

DJ Roach, C Yuan, X Kuang, VCF Li… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A method for fabricating long, soft, and reversibly actuatable liquid crystal elastomer (LCE)
fibers by using direct ink write (DIW) printing was developed. Here, the LCE was produced …

[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 …

Recent advances of the constitutive models of smart materials—hydrogels and shape memory polymers

R Huang, S Zheng, Z Liu, TY Ng - International Journal of Applied …, 2020 - World Scientific
Hydrogels and shape memory polymers (SMPs) possess excellent and interesting
properties that may be harnessed for future applications. However, this is not achievable if …

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 …