Shape-memory polymers (SMPs) are polymeric smart materials that have the ability to return from a deformed state (temporary shape) to their original (permanent)...

robotics, and sensor technology. Shape-memory polymers (SMPs) are able to recover their original shape from a deformed shape under certain circumstances,...

metallurgy, a shape-memory alloy (SMA) is an alloy that can be deformed when cold but returns to its pre-deformed ("remembered") shape when heated. It...

unidirectional shape-shape-memory effect is an effect classified within the new so-called smart materials. Polymers with thermally induced shape-memory effect...

A shape-memory material is a material that can be deformed and can return to its previous shape: Shape-memory alloys Shape-memory polymers This disambiguation...

applications. PEEK is not traditionally a shape-memory polymer; however, recent advances in processing have allowed shape-memory behaviour in PEEK with mechanical...

1959-2003 Shape-memory polymer, smart materials Signal Message Processor, for the Multifunctional Information Distribution System Silyl modified polymers, used...

using fibre or fabric reinforcements and shape-memory polymer resin as the matrix. Since a shape-memory polymer resin is used as the matrix, these composites...

(help) "Shape Memory Polymers | Sheffield Hallam University". www.shu.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-12-17. www.technicaltextile.net. "Features of Shape Memory Polymers...

compatibilization Sequence-controlled polymer Shape-memory polymer Sol–gel process Supramolecular polymer Thermoplastic Thermosetting polymer Roiter, Y.; Minko, S. (2005)...

eliminating the need to use external joints, adhesives, and fasteners. Shape memory polymer (SMP) actuators are the most similar to our muscles, providing a...

changing shape (shape memory polymers). Usually, slight changes in the environment are sufficient to induce large changes in the polymer's properties...

Light-induced shape-memory polymers. Nature 434, 879–882 (2005). Lendlein, A., Langer, R.: Biodegradable, Elastic Shape Memory Polymers for Potential...

(2011-08-09). "A versatile approach to achieve quintuple-shape memory effect by semi-interpenetrating polymer networks containing broadened glass transition and...

bend, expand or contract when a voltage is applied. Shape-memory alloys and shape-memory polymers are materials in which large deformation can be induced...

thermal transition of the polymer, shape memory behavior can be exhibited. This is where the polymer conforms to deformed shape and then returns to its...

Deployment of a Solar Panel Using Elastic Origami and Distributed Shape-Memory-Polymer Actuators". Physical Review Applied. 11 (6): 064069. doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied...

degradable thermoplastic polymers. These polymers are now able to change their shape with increase of temperature, causing shape memory capabilities as well...

mass of a polymer differs from typical molecules, in that polymerization reactions produce a distribution of molecular weights and shapes. The distribution...

Bellisario, Denise; Quadrini, Fabrizio (25 January 2018). "Shape Memory Behavior of PET Foams". Polymers. 10 (115): 115. doi:10.3390/polym10020115. PMC 6415055...

desired spatial distribution. Materials include polymers, responsive hydrogels, shape memory polymers and bio-materials. The micro electro-mechanical...

Becker ML (2020). "Advancing Toward 3D Printing of Bioresorbable Shape Memory Polymer Stents". Biomacromolecules. 21 (10): 3957–3965. doi:10.1021/acs.biomac...

field of coatings for example, a scratched region of a self-healing shape memory polymer coating containing a heat generating agent on aluminium alloys was...

engineers are using materials such as electroactive polymers (EAP), shape memory polymers, and shape memory alloys to achieve action origami structures. These...

has shown shape memory behavior depending on the concentration of poly-ε-caprolactone added. In general, biodegradable polymers break down to form...

an electric current was applied to the cape, the shape-memory fibers (much like Shape memory polymer) aligned into a semi-rigid form resembling a bat's...

piezoelectric behavior, where the polymer will generate an electric field when stress is applied, or change shape upon application of an electric field...

property of remembering their original shape even after being severely deformed. Thanks to their intrinsic shape memory and superelastic effects, they represent...

state variables. Notably, his work has extended to magnetic SMAs, shape memory polymers, and high-temperature phase-transforming materials. Furthermore...

muscle. Shape-memory alloys (SMAs), liquid crystalline elastomers, and metallic alloys that can be deformed and then returned to their original shape when...