Shape memory polymers: Past, present and future developments

MD Hager, S Bode, C Weber, US Schubert - Progress in Polymer Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) represent a highly interesting class of materials. As one
representative of the intelligent polymeric systems, these materials gained significant …

Review on the functional determinants and durability of shape memory polymers

T Pretsch - Polymers, 2010 - mdpi.com
Shape memory polymers (SMP) belong to the class of stimuli-responsive materials and have
generated significant research interest. Their capability to retain an imposed, temporary …

Biomedical applications of thermally activated shape memory polymers

W Small IV, P Singhal, TS Wilson… - Journal of materials …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are smart materials that can remember a primary shape
and can return to this primary shape from a deformed secondary shape when given an …

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 polymers (SMPs) can be programmed to a temporary shape, and then
recover its original shape by applying environmental stimuli when needed. To expands the …

Two-way reversible shape memory effects in a free-standing polymer composite

KK Westbrook, PT Mather, V Parakh… - Smart Materials and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) have attracted significant research efforts due to their ease
in manufacturing and highly tailorable thermomechanical properties. SMPs can be …

Shape memory materials for biomedical applications

F El Feninat, G Laroche, M Fiset… - Advanced Engineering …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Shape memory properties provide a very attractive insight into materials science, opening
unexplored horizons and giving access to unconventional functions in every material class …

Shape memory alloys and polymers for MEMS/NEMS applications: Review on recent findings and challenges in design, preparation, and characterization

I Stachiv, E Alarcon, M Lamac - Metals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Rapid progress in material science and nanotechnology has led to the development of the
shape memory alloys (SMA) and the shape memory polymers (SMP) based functional …

Shape memory polymer research

PT Mather, X Luo, IA Rousseau - Annual Review of Materials …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
The past several years have witnessed significant advances in the field of shape memory
polymers (SMPs) with the elucidation of new compositions for property tuning, the discovery …

Shape-memory polymers—a class of novel smart materials

J Leng, H Lu, Y Liu, WM Huang, S Du - MRS bulletin, 2009 - cambridge.org
Shape-memory polymers (SMPs) offer a number of potential technical advantages that
surpass other shape-memory materials such as shape-memory metallic alloys and shape …

Recent progress in shape memory polymers for biomedical applications

HM Chen, L Wang, SB Zhou - Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2018 - Springer
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) as one type of the most important smart materials have
attracted increasing attention due to their promising application in the field of biomedicine …