A brief review of the shape memory phenomena in polymers and their typical sensor applications

• Main Authors: Sun, Li, Wang, Tao Xi, Chen, Hong Mei, Salvekar, Abhijit Vijay, Naveen, Balasundaram Selvan, Xu, Qinwei, Weng, Yiwei, Guo, Xinli, Chen, Yahui, Huang, Wei Min
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Shape Memory Polymer; Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Shape Memory Material
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90031; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49361
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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 that, a summary of typical applications in sensors based on either heating or wetting activated shape recovery using largely c...