Charles Goodyear discovered the vulcanization of natural rubber (NR) 170 years ago and
transferred the gooey natural compound into the first representative of an entirely new class …

Styrene butadiene styrene (SBS) block copolymers comprise of two phases structured
domains involving polystyrene “hard” domains and butadiene “soft” domains. The styreneic …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201500835 by almost every class of existing SMPs.[1–11, 13, 28, 29]
By contrast, SMPs that can be “cold” programmed (ie, deformed to a temporary shape at or …

We present a phenomenological thermodynamic model to study the constitutive relations
and working mechanism of the chemo-responsive shape memory effect (SME) in shape …

Shape‐memory polymers (SMPs) are smart, responsive materials with numerous potential
applications. Based on previously introduced shape‐memory natural rubber (SMNR), which …

A biobased heat-triggered shape-memory polymer (HSMP) consisting of polylactide (PLA)
and epoxidized natural rubber (ENR) was fabricated by peroxide-induced dynamic …

Controlling network architecture and chain connectivity is critical to understanding elastic
energy storage and improving performance of shape-memory polymers. Acrylate-terminated …

We found that constrained shape memory natural rubber (SMNR) generates mechanical
stress when exposed to solvent vapor. When the solvent vapor is removed, the material …

When natural rubber is rapidly loaded and unloaded there occurs a variation of its
temperature called the elastocaloric effect. The objective of this work was to determine …

Traditional shape memory polymers (SMPs) are mostly thermoresponsive, and their
applications in nano-optics are hindered by heat-demanding programming and recovery …