Thermosetting resins can't be softened and remoulded in secondary processing due to the
irreversible chemical reaction that occurs during the curing process to form a cross-linked …

Mechanical forces are ubiquitous in the living world, as the physical environment interacts
with living beings. Moreover, animals, plants, bacteria, and cells exert forces on their …

Heat generation in active/passive layer-based piezoelectric actuators is unavoidable due to
the mechanical, dielectric, and resistive losses in the material. In this work, a polyvinylidene …

Ein Nachteil handelsüblicher Folien-und Wandertunnel ist, dass in solchen Konstruktionen
Rundbögen aus verzinktem Stahl eingesetzt werden, die ein großes Transportgewicht …

One type of stimuli-responsive actuator is a bending actuator, which is typically constructed
by bonding together two materials with differential volumetric expansion or contraction under …

ABSTRACT A series of laterally substituted low-molar-mass liquid crystals with molecular
geometry were constructed with three phenyl rings bridged through ester central groups as …

Besides the shape memory effect (SME), in which the permanent shape can be recovered at
the presence of the right stimulus, the temperature memory effect (TME) is another feature of …