Thermo/chemo-responsive shape memory effect in polymers : a sketch of working mechanisms, fundamentals and optimization

• Main Authors: Huang, Wei Min, Wang, Chang Chun, Ding, Zheng, Purnawali, Hendra, Tang, Cheng, Zhang, Jiliang, Zhao, Y.
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99723; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17148
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Based on the working mechanisms, a systematic literature review is logically presented to reveal that the thermo- and chemo- responsive shape memory effects (SMEs) are not the special phenomena of some particular polymers, but intrinsic features of most polymers (if not all). Subsequently, referring...