In this brief review, an introduction of the underlying mechanisms for the shape memory
effect (SME) and various shape memory phenomena in polymers is presented first. After …

Shape‐memory polymers (SMPs) are smart materials that change shape when exposed to
stimuli and have various applications in different fields due to their unique properties. Light …

Biosourced materials are gaining interest industrially, but there are still limitations on the
library of available materials suitable for advanced manufacturing, especially using …

Additive manufacturing (AM) using Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is one of the
advanced fabrication processes which allows for fabricating sophisticated parts with high …

Ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP) of polyesters may be used to achieve a wide
variety of functional polymers using commercial monomer libraries, but primarily make use …

Photopolymers are one of the fastest growing 3D printing material classes, despite the lack
of diversity in performance or composition. A simple addition of graphite nanopowder is …

The advent of smart or functional 3D printing (3DP) materials (“four-dimensional (4D)
materials”) represents one important development toward addressing current limitations in …

Brillouin spectroscopy is an emerging tool in biomedical imaging and sensing. It is capable
of assessing the high-frequency viscoelastic longitudinal modulus with microscopic spatial …

Their highly deformable properties make shape memory polymers (SMP) a promising
component for the development of new compression garments. The shape memory effect …

In order to further understand the shape memory mechanism of a silicon dioxide/shape
memory polyurethane (SiO2/SMPU) composite, the thermodynamic properties and shape …