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Ideas are not replicators but minds are [PDF]
, 2004 An idea is not a replicator because it does not consist of coded self-assembly instructions. It may retain structure as it passes from one individual to another, but does not replicate it.
Gabora, Dr. Liane
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Elinvar Materials: Recent Progress and Challenges
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Elinvar materials, exhibiting temperature‐invariant elastic modulus, are critical for precision instruments and emerging technologies. This article reviews recent progress in the field, with a focus on the anomalous thermoelastic behavior observed in key material systems.
Wenjie Li, Yang Ren
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Recent advances in dynamic covalent bond-based shape memory polymers
e-Polymers, 2022 Dynamic covalent bond-based shape memory polymers (DCB-SMPs) are one of most important SMPs which have a wide potential application prospect. Different from common strong covalent bonds, DCBs own relatively weak bonding energy, similarly to the ...
Peng Shuyi +5 more
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Polymer Testing, 2021 Shape memory polymers (SMPs) have the ability to fix a temporarily deformed shape and recover its original shape. Owing to the shape memory effect, SMPs have been widely investigated for applications in various industries. Shape memory polyurethane (SMPU)
Seung Hwan Baek, Jung Hyeun Kim
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AC Electric Field Activated Shape Memory Polymer Composite [PDF]
, 2011 Shape memory materials have drawn interest for applications like intelligent medical devices, deployable space structures and morphing structures. Compared to other shape memory materials like shape memory alloys (SMAs) or shape memory ceramics (SMCs ...
Kang, Jin Ho +3 more
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The potential of additive manufacturing in the smart factory industrial 4.0: A review [PDF]
, 2019 Additive manufacturing (AM) or three-dimensional (3D) printing has introduced a novel production method in design, manufacturing, and distribution to end-users.
Dehghanghadikolaei, Amir +5 more
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Carbon nanomaterial‐reinforced epoxy composites exhibit pronounced piezoresistive behavior, enabling intrinsic damage sensing under cyclic and fatigue loading. This review critically compares carbon nanotube and graphene systems, correlating filler content, percolation threshold, and gauge factor with sensing stability and damage evolution.
J. M. Parente +3 more
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Healable, Flexible Supercapacitors Based on Shape Memory Polymers
Applied Sciences, 2018 Supercapacitors as novel and efficient energy storage devices could provide a higher power density and energy density compared to other electronics and devices. However, traditional supercapacitors are readily damaged, which leads to degraded performance
Huankai Zhou +6 more
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Smart polymer nanocomposites: A review
eXPRESS Polymer Letters, 2020 The development of smart polymer nanocomposites (SPN) has been an area of high scientific and industrial interest in recent years, due to fantastic improvements achieved in these materials.
W. S. Chow, Z. A. Mohd Ishak
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