Recent progress in shape memory polymer composites: methods, properties, applications and prospects

M Lei, Z Chen, H Lu, K Yu - Nanotechnology reviews, 2019 - degruyter.com
shape memory mechanism of amorphous SMPs can be attributed to the stress relaxation
behaviors … More interestingly, fillers can also enable SMPCs multi-functionalities in the shape

A review of shape memory polymers and composites: mechanisms, materials, and applications

Y Xia, Y He, F Zhang, Y Liu, J Leng - Advanced materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent progress in shape memory applications is … of SMPs; shape memory mechanism and
characterization; one-way, … to the crystalline polymer, which enables the blended polymer to …

Shape memory polymers as smart materials: a review

T Dayyoub, AV Maksimkin, OV Filippova… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
… At the structure level, for two-way shape memory polymers, the activation mechanism of …
activate SMPs. In the reference [16], polycaprolactone was used as a shape memory polymer

Active composites based on shape memory polymers: overview, fabrication methods, applications, and future prospects

SK Melly, L Liu, Y Liu, J Leng - Journal of Materials Science, 2020 - Springer
… These materials have been named “shape memory materials (… shape memory alloys (SMAs),
shape memory polymers (SMPs), shape memory ceramics (SMCs), and shape memory

Shape memory polymer fibers: materials, structures, and applications

L Wang, F Zhang, Y Liu, J Leng - Advanced Fiber Materials, 2022 - Springer
materials, fabrication methods, structures, multifunction, and applications. Firstly, the mechanism
… from 55 to 170 C, which enables the fiber membranes to remember three, four or five …

Reprogrammable recovery and actuation behaviour of shape-memory polymers

A Lendlein, OEC Gould - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
… chains, generates the network architecture necessary for shape memory through enabling
elastic … The incorporation of a folding mechanism in shape-memory polymers has substantially …

The research status and challenges of shape memory polymer-based flexible electronics

H Gao, J Li, F Zhang, Y Liu, J Leng - Materials Horizons, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
mechanism of SMAs, the shape-memory effect in SMPs stems from a dual-segment system:
stable netpoints to determine the permanent shape and switching segments to enable

Mechanical behaviors and applications of shape memory polymer and its composites

W Zhao, N Li, L Liu, J Leng, Y Liu - Applied Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
… we reviewed the development of SMP/SMPC. First, we review the underlying mechanism of
… reversible phases to maintain the initial shape and enabled SMP to deform. The synergistic …

Multiple and two-way reversible shape memory polymers: Design strategies and applications

K Wang, YG Jia, C Zhao, XX Zhu - Progress in Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
… , the molecular mechanism, classification, design strategies and the recent progress of …
design strategies as well as a recent development in thermally induced SMPs activated by …

Recent advances and perspectives of shape memory polymer fibers

W Wei, J Liu, J Huang, F Cao, K Qian, Y Yao… - European Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
mechanism, categorization, and stimulus methods of SMPs, summarizes the spinning methods
of shape memory polymer … of polymer, allowing shape recovery without heating. Another …