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Halogen-bonded shape memory polymers [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2022 Halogen bonding is widely adopted in organic synthesis and supramolecular crystal engineering but application of halogen bonding in the design of stimuli-responsive materials is challenging.
Hongshuang Guo +6 more
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4D Optical fibers based on shape-memory polymers [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Adaptative objects based on shape-memory materials are expected to significantly impact numerous technological sectors including optics and photonics.
Clément Strutynski +7 more
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Body-responsive shape-memory polymers for biomedical applications [PDF]
Bioactive MaterialsShape memory polymers (SMPs) have emerged as versatile and adaptive materials in healthcare, offering transformative solutions for tissue repair and biomedical device interfaces.
Ebrahim Tajik +4 more
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Cell-Responsive Shape Memory Polymers. [PDF]
ACS Biomater Sci Eng, 2022 Recent decades have seen substantial interest in the development and application of biocompatible shape memory polymers (SMPs), a class of "smart materials" that can respond to external stimuli. Although many studies have used SMP platforms triggered by thermal or photothermal events to study cell mechanobiology, SMPs triggered by cell activity have ...
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Shape-Memory Polymers Based on Carbon Nanotube Composites [PDF]
MicromachinesFor the past two decades, researchers have been exploring the potential benefits of combining shape-memory polymers (SMP) with carbon nanotubes (CNT). By incorporating CNT as reinforcement in SMP, they have aimed to enhance the mechanical properties and ...
Mariana Martins da Silva +3 more
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Principles for Controlling the Shape Recovery and Degradation Behavior of Biodegradable Shape-Memory Polymers in Biomedical Applications [PDF]
Micromachines, 2021 Polymers with the shape memory effect possess tremendous potential for application in diverse fields, including aerospace, textiles, robotics, and biomedicine, because of their mechanical properties (softness and flexibility) and chemical tunability ...
Junsang Lee, Seung-Kyun Kang
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Shape Memory and Shape Changing Polymers in Cell Mechanobiology [PDF]
Baspārish, 2022 The tissues in the human body comprise complex assemblages of several different types of cells that are dispersed on an extracellular matrix (ECM).
mehdi sheikhi, Fatemeh Rafiemanzelat
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Shape memory polymers in osteochondral tissue engineering [PDF]
Journal of Research in Clinical Medicine, 2022 Bone and cartilage injuries are significantly increasing with population aging. Tissue engineering is considered an alternative and promising approach for alleviating osteochondral tissue injuries along with available therapeutic modalities.
Sepideh Saghati +5 more
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Shape memory textiles – technological background and possible applications
Communications in Development and Assembling of Textile Products, 2021 While shape memory alloys (SMAs) and shape memory polymers (SMPs) can already be found in diverse applications, shape memory textiles are less often used. Nevertheless, they are regularly investigated. Typical ways to produce shape memory textiles (SMTs)
Guido Ehrmann, Andrea Ehrmann
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Reversibly Photoswitchable High‐Aspect Ratio Surfaces
Small Structures, 2023 Herein, the fabrication of light‐sensitive high‐aspect ratio surfaces with switchable topography using melt‐electrowriting of shape‐memory polymers and deposition of light‐to‐heat converting black ink on it by dip coating is reported on.
Gissela Constante +4 more
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