Review of progress in shape-memory polymers

C Liu, H Qin, PT Mather - Journal of materials chemistry, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Shape-memory polymers (SMPs) have attracted significant attention from both industrial and
academic researchers due to their useful and fascinating functionality. This review …

Multifunctional shape‐memory polymers

M Behl, MY Razzaq, A Lendlein - Advanced materials, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The thermally‐induced shape‐memory effect (SME) is the capability of a material to change
its shape in a predefined way in response to heat. In shape‐memory polymers (SMP) this …

Remotely actuated polymer nanocomposites—stress-recovery of carbon-nanotube-filled thermoplastic elastomers

H Koerner, G Price, NA Pearce, M Alexander… - Nature materials, 2004 - nature.com
Stimuli-responsive (active) materials undergo large-scale shape or property changes in
response to an external stimulus such as stress, temperature, light or pH,. Technological …

Recent advances in shape memory polymers and composites: a review

D Ratna, J Karger-Kocsis - Journal of Materials Science, 2008 - Springer
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) belong to a class of smart polymers, which have drawn
considerable research interest in last few years because of their applications in …

[BOOK][B] Plastics technology handbook

M Chanda, SK Roy - 2006 - taylorfrancis.com
Because the field of plastics is one of the fastest changing areas today, the need arises to
offer relevant, comprehensive material on polymers. An established source of information on …

[HTML][HTML] A review of shape memory polymer composites and blends

Q Meng, J Hu - Composites Part A: Applied Science and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are a kind of very important smart polymers. In order to
improve the properties or obtain new functions of SMPs, SMP composites and blends are …

A review on additive manufacturing of shape-memory materials for biomedical applications

N Sabahi, W Chen, CH Wang, JJ Kruzic, X Li - Jom, 2020 - Springer
Shape-memory materials (SMMs) are characterized by their unique ability to remember and
recover their shape in response to external stimuli. Over recent decades, the use of SMMs in …

[BOOK][B] Industrial polymers, specialty polymers, and their applications

M Chanda, SK Roy - 2008 - taylorfrancis.com
Industrial Polymers, Specialty Polymers, and Their Applications Page 1 Industrial Polymers,
Specialty Polymers, and Their Applications Industrial P olymers, S p ecialty P oly m ers, Th eir …

Designing multiple-shape memory polymers with miscible polymer blends: evidence and origins of a triple-shape memory effect for miscible PLLA/PMMA blends

C Samuel, S Barrau, JM Lefebvre, JM Raquez… - …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Shape memory properties of polymers represent one of the most expanding fields in
polymer science related to numerous smart applications. Recently, multiple-shape memory …

Progress in shape memory epoxy resins

KSS Kumar, R Biju, CPR Nair - Reactive and Functional Polymers, 2013 - Elsevier
This review analyses the progress in the field of shape memory epoxy resins (SMEPs).
Partial crystallisation and vitrification are the basis of shape memory effect in SMEPs …