Materials for smart soft actuator systems

I Apsite, S Salehi, L Ionov - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
In contrast to conventional hard actuators, soft actuators offer many vivid advantages, such
as improved flexibility, adaptability, and reconfigurability, which are intrinsic to living …

Heating/solvent responsive shape‐memory polymers for implant biomedical devices in minimally invasive surgery: current status and challenge

R **ao, WM Huang - Macromolecular bioscience, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This review is about the fundamentals and practical issues in applying both heating and
solvent responsive shape memory polymers (SMPs) for implant biomedical devices via …

Actuating shape memory polymer for thermoresponsive soft robotic gripper and programmable materials

D Schönfeld, D Chalissery, F Wenz, M Specht, C Eberl… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
For soft robotics and programmable metamaterials, novel approaches are required enabling
the design of highly integrated thermoresponsive actuating systems. In the concept …

Microstructural design for enhanced mechanical and shape memory performance of polyurethane nanocomposites: Role of hybrid nanofillers of montmorillonite and …

A Amirkiai, M Panahi-Sarmad, GMM Sadeghi… - Applied Clay …, 2020 - Elsevier
Herein, the effect of simultaneous incorporation of two silicate-based nanofillers, including
montmorillonite (Mt) and halloysite nanotube (Hal), on mechanical and shape memory …

[PDF][PDF] A review of the current state of research and future prospectives on stimulus-responsive shape memory polymer composite and its blends

R Sanaka, SK Sahu, PSR Sreekanth… - Journal of …, 2024 - researchgate.net
Shape-memory polymers (SMPs) possess unique properties that respond to external stimuli.
The current review discusses types of SMPs, fabrication methods, and the characterization …

Superior nano-mechanical properties of reduced graphene oxide reinforced polyurethane composites

TK Gupta, BP Singh, RK Tripathi, SR Dhakate… - Rsc Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Polyurethane (PU) based composites were prepared by solvent casting techniques using
different wt%(0–5 wt%) of reduced graphene oxide (RGO) as reinforcement. A …

Programming of temperature-memory onsets in a semicrystalline polyurethane elastomer

N Fritzsche, T Pretsch - Macromolecules, 2014 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate that phase-segregated poly (ester urethane)(PEU) with crystallizable
switching segments of poly (1, 4-butylene adipate)(PBA) excels as high-performance …

One-way shape memory polyesters-evolution, growth, developments, and current trends

S Basak, P Dasgupta… - … -Plastics Technology and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are a class of smart materials that, when excited by a
stimulus, can revert to their original shape after being temporarily deformed. Due to its …

Shape-memory properties of crosslinked biobased polyurethanes

T Calvo-Correas, N Gabilondo, A Alonso-Varona… - European Polymer …, 2016 - Elsevier
Biobased crosslinked polyurethanes were synthesized and characterized as shape-memory
polymers. Both the macrodiol and the diisocyanate were derived from renewable sources; …

Temperature memory effect in amorphous shape memory polymers

K Yu, HJ Qi - Soft Matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Temperature memory effect (TME) refers to the ability of shape memory polymers (SMPs) to
memorize the temperature at which pre-deformation was conducted. In the past few years …